Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2] KVM: remove buggy vcpu id check on vcpu creation

[Greg Kurz]

Forget this post, I'll send a v3. Thanks to the kbuild test robot ! :)

On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:26:48 +0200
Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:

> Commit 338c7dbadd26 ("KVM: Improve create VCPU parameter (CVE-2013-4587)")
> introduced a check to prevent potential kernel memory corruption in case
> the vcpu id is too great.
> 
> Unfortunately this check assumes vcpu ids grow in sequence with a common
> difference of 1, which is wrong: archs are free to use vcpu id as they fit.
> For example, QEMU originated vcpu ids for PowerPC cpus running in boot3s_hv
> mode, can grow with a common difference of 2, 4 or 8: if KVM_MAX_VCPUS is
> 1024, guests may be limited down to 128 vcpus on POWER8.
> 
> This means the check does not belong here and should be moved to some arch
> specific function: kvm_arch_vcpu_create() looks like a good candidate.
> 
> ARM and s390 already have such a check.
> 
> I could not spot any path in the PowerPC or common KVM code where a vcpu
> id is used as described in the above commit: I believe PowerPC can live
> without this check.
> 
> In the end, this patch simply moves the check to MIPS and x86.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> ---
> v2: move kzalloc() after the check in MIPS to avoid memory leak
> 
>  arch/mips/kvm/mips.c |    5 ++++-
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c   |    3 +++
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c  |    3 ---
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
> index 70ef1a43c114..c1ce9d44d685 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
> @@ -248,9 +248,12 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm *kvm, 
> unsigned int id)
>       int err, size, offset;
>       void *gebase;
>       int i;
> +     struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
> 
> -     struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_vcpu), GFP_KERNEL);
> +     if (id >= KVM_MAX_VCPUS)
> +             return -EINVAL;
> 
> +     vcpu = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_vcpu), GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!vcpu) {
>               err = -ENOMEM;
>               goto out;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 9b7798c7b210..f705d57b12ed 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -7358,6 +7358,9 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm *kvm,
>  {
>       struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
> 
> +     if (id >= KVM_MAX_VCPUS)
> +             return -EINVAL;
> +
>       if (check_tsc_unstable() && atomic_read(&kvm->online_vcpus) != 0)
>               printk_once(KERN_WARNING
>               "kvm: SMP vm created on host with unstable TSC; "
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 4fd482fb9260..6b6cca3cb488 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -2272,9 +2272,6 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, 
> u32 id)
>       int r;
>       struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
> 
> -     if (id >= KVM_MAX_VCPUS)
> -             return -EINVAL;
> -
>       vcpu = kvm_arch_vcpu_create(kvm, id);
>       if (IS_ERR(vcpu))
>               return PTR_ERR(vcpu);
> 
>