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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 28, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

KVM: VMX: Disable preemption when probing user return MSRs

CVE-2021-46977

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: VMX: Disable preemption when probing user return MSRs

Disable preemption when probing a user return MSR via RDSMR/WRMSR. If the MSR holds a different value per logical CPU, the WRMSR could corrupt the host's value if KVM is preempted between the RDMSR and WRMSR, and then rescheduled on a different CPU.

Opportunistically land the helper in common x86, SVM will use the helper in a future commit.

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