[PATCH v2] ARM: KVM: prevent NULL pointer dereferences with KVM VCPU ioctl

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at linaro.org
Wed May 8 18:28:06 EDT 2013


Some ARM KVM VCPU ioctls require the vCPU to be properly initialized
with the KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl before being used with further
requests. KVM_RUN checks whether this initialization has been
done, but other ioctls do not.
Namely KVM_GET_REG_LIST will dereference an array with index -1
without initialization and thus leads to a kernel oops.
Fix this by adding checks before executing the ioctl handlers.

Changes from v1:
 * moved check into a static function with a meaningful name

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index c1fe498..b73b587 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -676,6 +676,15 @@ static void vcpu_pause(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	wait_event_interruptible(*wq, !vcpu->arch.pause);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Some ioctls require initialization by KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT first, check
+ * this with this function
+ */
+static int kvm_vcpu_initialized(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	return vcpu->arch.target >= 0;
+}
+
 /**
  * kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run - the main VCPU run function to execute guest code
  * @vcpu:	The VCPU pointer
@@ -692,8 +701,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
 	int ret;
 	sigset_t sigsaved;
 
-	/* Make sure they initialize the vcpu with KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT */
-	if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.target < 0))
+	if (unlikely(!kvm_vcpu_initialized(vcpu)))
 		return -ENOEXEC;
 
 	ret = kvm_vcpu_first_run_init(vcpu);
@@ -893,6 +901,10 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
 	case KVM_SET_ONE_REG:
 	case KVM_GET_ONE_REG: {
 		struct kvm_one_reg reg;
+
+		if (unlikely(!kvm_vcpu_initialized(vcpu)))
+			return -ENOEXEC;
+
 		if (copy_from_user(&reg, argp, sizeof(reg)))
 			return -EFAULT;
 		if (ioctl == KVM_SET_ONE_REG)
@@ -905,6 +917,9 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
 		struct kvm_reg_list reg_list;
 		unsigned n;
 
+		if (unlikely(!kvm_vcpu_initialized(vcpu)))
+			return -ENOEXEC;
+
 		if (copy_from_user(&reg_list, user_list, sizeof(reg_list)))
 			return -EFAULT;
 		n = reg_list.n;
-- 
1.7.12.1




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