[PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: check IRQ number on userland injection

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Apr 10 08:25:19 PDT 2015


On 10/04/15 16:17, Andre Przywara wrote:
> When userland injects a SPI via the KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl we currently
> only check it against a fixed limit, which historically is set
> to 127. With the new dynamic IRQ allocation the effective limit may
> actually be smaller (64).
> So when now a malicious or buggy userland injects a SPI in that
> range, we spill over on our VGIC bitmaps and bytemaps memory.
> I could trigger a host kernel NULL pointer dereference with current
> mainline by injecting some bogus IRQ number from a hacked kvmtool:
> -----------------
> ....
> DEBUG: kvm_vgic_inject_irq(kvm, cpu=0, irq=114, level=1)
> DEBUG: vgic_update_irq_pending(kvm, cpu=0, irq=114, level=1)
> DEBUG: IRQ #114 still in the game, writing to bytemap now...
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> pgd = ffffffc07652e000
> [00000000] *pgd=00000000f658b003, *pud=00000000f658b003, *pmd=0000000000000000
> Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 1 PID: 1053 Comm: lkvm-msi-irqinj Not tainted 4.0.0-rc7+ #3027
> Hardware name: FVP Base (DT)
> task: ffffffc0774e9680 ti: ffffffc0765a8000 task.ti: ffffffc0765a8000
> PC is at kvm_vgic_inject_irq+0x234/0x310
> LR is at kvm_vgic_inject_irq+0x30c/0x310
> pc : [<ffffffc0000ae0a8>] lr : [<ffffffc0000ae180>] pstate: 80000145
> .....
> 
> So this patch fixes this by checking the SPI number against the
> actual limit. Also we remove the former legacy hard limit of
> 127 in the ioctl code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> CC: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.0, 3.19, 3.18

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

It is getting really tight for 4.0, but hopefully I can squeeze it in a
second pull request together with the missing barrier on 32bit.

Thanks,

	M.
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