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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: fix MSR_COUNT for kvm_arch_save_regs()
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:43:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1255700594.3072.25.camel@blaa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091014180227.GQ24126@blackpad.lan.raisama.net>

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 15:02 -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> A new register was added to the load/save list on commit
> d283d5a65a2bdcc570065267be21848bd6fe3d78, but MSR_COUNT was not updated, leading
> to potential stack corruption on kvm_arch_save_regs().
> 
> The following registers are saved by kvm_arch_save_regs():
> 
>  1) MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS
>  2) MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP
>  3) MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP
>  4) MSR_STAR
>  5) MSR_IA32_TSC
>  6) MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA
>  7) MSR_CSTAR (x86_64 only)
>  8) MSR_KERNELGSBASE (x86_64 only)
>  9) MSR_FMASK (x86_64 only)
> 10) MSR_LSTAR (x86_64 only)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

Forgot:

  Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>

Looks like the fix is needed on both stable-0.10 and stable-0.11 as well
as master

Cheers,
Mark.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-16 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14 18:02 [PATCH] kvm: fix MSR_COUNT for kvm_arch_save_regs() Eduardo Habkost
2009-10-15 15:59 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-10-16 13:43 ` Mark McLoughlin [this message]

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