Author: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Apr 10 09:20:04 2026 +0200
xen/privcmd: fix double free via VMA splitting
commit 24daca4fc07f3ff8cd0e3f629cd982187f48436a upstream.
privcmd_vm_ops defines .close (privcmd_close), but neither .may_split
nor .open. When userspace does a partial munmap() on a privcmd mapping,
the kernel splits the VMA via __split_vma(). Since may_split is NULL,
the split is allowed. vm_area_dup() copies vm_private_data (a pages
array allocated in alloc_empty_pages()) into the new VMA without any
fixup, because there is no .open callback.
Both VMAs now point to the same pages array. When the unmapped portion
is closed, privcmd_close() calls:
- xen_unmap_domain_gfn_range()
- xen_free_unpopulated_pages()
- kvfree(pages)
The surviving VMA still holds the dangling pointer. When it is later
destroyed, the same sequence runs again, which leads to a double free.
Fix this issue by adding a .may_split callback denying the VMA split.
This is XSA-487 / CVE-2026-31787
Fixes: d71f513985c2 ("xen: privcmd: support autotranslated physmap guests.")
Reported-by: Atharva Vartak <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Atharva Vartak <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>