In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:KVM: x86: Immediately reset the MMU context when the SMM flag is clearedImmediately reset the MMU context when the vCPU's SMM flag is cleared sothat the SMM flag in the MMU role is always synchronized with the vCPU'sflag.  If RSM fails (which isn't correctly emulated), KVM will bailwithout calling post_leave_smm() and leave the MMU in a bad state.The bad MMU role can lead to a NULL pointer dereference when grabbing ashadow page's rmap for a page fault as the initial lookups for the gfnwill happen with the vCPU's SMM flag (=0), whereas the rmap lookup willuse the shadow page's SMM flag, which comes from the MMU (=1).  SMM hasan entirely different set of memslots, and so the initial lookup can finda memslot (SMM=0) and then explode on the rmap memslot lookup (SMM=1).  general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]  CPU: 1 PID: 8410 Comm: syz-executor382 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-syzkaller #0  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011  RIP: 0010:__gfn_to_rmap arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:935 [inline]  RIP: 0010:gfn_to_rmap+0x2b0/0x4d0 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:947  Code: <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 f1 79 a9 00 4c 89 fb 4d 8b 37 44  RSP: 0018:ffffc90000ffef98 EFLAGS: 00010246  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888015b9f414 RCX: ffff888019669c40  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000001  RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffffffff811d9cdb R09: ffffed10065a6002  R10: ffffed10065a6002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000  R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000  FS:  000000000124b300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000028e31000 CR4: 00000000001526e0  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400  Call Trace:   rmap_add arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:965 [inline]   mmu_set_spte+0x862/0xe60 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:2604   __direct_map arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:2862 [inline]   direct_page_fault+0x1f74/0x2b70 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:3769   kvm_mmu_do_page_fault arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h:124 [inline]   kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x199/0x1440 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:5065   vmx_handle_exit+0x26/0x160 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6122   vcpu_enter_guest+0x3bdd/0x9630 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:9428   vcpu_run+0x416/0xc20 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:9494   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x4e8/0xa40 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:9722   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x70f/0xbb0 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3460   vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]   __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:1069 [inline]   __se_sys_ioctl+0xfb/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:1055   do_syscall_64+0x3f/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae  RIP: 0033:0x440ce9
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference