arm32: The cache may not be properly cleaned/invalidated (take two)

CVE-2023-46837

What is CVE-2023-46837?

Arm provides multiple helpers to clean & invalidate the cache for a given region. This is, for instance, used when allocating guest memory to ensure any writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached memory before handing over the page to a guest.

Unfortunately, the arithmetics in the helpers can overflow and would then result to skip the cache cleaning/invalidation. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory.

This undefined behavior was meant to be addressed by XSA-437, but the approach was not sufficient.

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