From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: rkrcmar@redhat.com, dan.carpenter@oracle.com, david@redhat.com,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "KVM: x86: zero base3 of unusable segments" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 15:04:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14990870941970@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KVM: x86: zero base3 of unusable segments
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kvm-x86-zero-base3-of-unusable-segments.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From f0367ee1d64d27fa08be2407df5c125442e885e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Radim=20Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99?= <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 19:37:30 +0200
Subject: KVM: x86: zero base3 of unusable segments
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From: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
commit f0367ee1d64d27fa08be2407df5c125442e885e3 upstream.
Static checker noticed that base3 could be used uninitialized if the
segment was not present (useable). Random stack values probably would
not pass VMCS entry checks.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Fixes: 1aa366163b8b ("KVM: x86 emulator: consolidate segment accessors")
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -4999,6 +4999,8 @@ static bool emulator_get_segment(struct
if (var.unusable) {
memset(desc, 0, sizeof(*desc));
+ if (base3)
+ *base3 = 0;
return false;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rkrcmar@redhat.com are
queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-fix-exception-injection.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-vpmu-fix-undefined-shift-in-intel_pmu_refresh.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-zero-base3-of-unusable-segments.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-fix-fixing-of-hypercalls.patch
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