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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47639"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:54:11.651Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:48:44.903Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47639"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47639.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47639"
title: "KVM: x86/mmu: Zap _all_ roots when unmapping gfn range in TDP MMU"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86/mmu: Zap _all_ roots when unmapping gfn range in TDP MMU\n\nZap both valid and invalid roots when zapping/unmapping a gfn range, as\nKVM must ensure it holds no references to the freed page after returning\nfrom the unmap operation.  Most notably, the TDP MMU doesn't zap invalid\nroots in mmu_notifier callbacks.  This leads to use-after-free and other\nissues if the mmu_notifier runs to completion while an invalid root\nzapper yields as KVM fails to honor the requirement that there must be\n_no_ references to the page after the mmu_notifier returns.\n\nThe bug is most easily reproduced by hacking KVM to cause a collision\nbetween set_nx_huge_pages() and kvm_mmu_notifier_release(), but the bug\nexists between kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() and memslot\nupdates as well.  Invalidating a root ensures pages aren't accessible by\nthe guest, and KVM won't read or write page data itself, but KVM will\ntrigger e.g. kvm_set_pfn_dirty() when zapping SPTEs, and thus completing\na zap of an invalid root _after_ the mmu_notifier returns is fatal.\n\n  WARNING: CPU: 24 PID: 1496 at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:173 [kvm]\n  RIP: 0010:kvm_is_zone_device_pfn+0x96/0xa0 [kvm]\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   kvm_set_pfn_dirty+0xa8/0xe0 [kvm]\n   __handle_changed_spte+0x2ab/0x5e0 [kvm]\n   __handle_changed_spte+0x2ab/0x5e0 [kvm]\n   __handle_changed_spte+0x2ab/0x5e0 [kvm]\n   zap_gfn_range+0x1f3/0x310 [kvm]\n   kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_invalidated_roots+0x50/0x90 [kvm]\n   kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast+0x177/0x1a0 [kvm]\n   set_nx_huge_pages+0xb4/0x190 [kvm]\n   param_attr_store+0x70/0x100\n   module_attr_store+0x19/0x30\n   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x119/0x1b0\n   new_sync_write+0x11c/0x1b0\n   vfs_write+0x1cc/0x270\n   ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0\n   do_syscall_64+0x38/0xc0\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n   \u003c/TASK\u003e"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b7cccd397f310739fb85383033e95580f99927e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af47248407c0c5ae52a752af1ab5ce5b0db91502"},{"version":"b7cccd397f310739fb85383033e95580f99927e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c8a8da182d4333d9bbb9131d765145568c847b2"},{"version":"b7cccd397f310739fb85383033e95580f99927e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8cf6f98ab1d16d5e607635a0c21c4231eb15367e"},{"version":"b7cccd397f310739fb85383033e95580f99927e0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d62007edf01f5c11f75d0f4b1e538fc52a5b1982"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.15.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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