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

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Fri Apr 10 09:43:57 PDT 2015



On 10/04/2015 17:25, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> 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.

I doubt I'll be able to send the pull request to Linus.  Can't it really
wait a couple of weeks?  I'll include it in the second pull request for
4.1, together with (if you want) the lazy (lazier) FP/SIMD save/restore.

Paolo



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