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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: "G. Campana" <gcampana+kvm@quarkslab.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, andre.przywara@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] [PATCH v2] kvmtool: fix virtio 9p vulnerabilities
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:55:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161118175549.GA13470@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478791271-7558-1-git-send-email-gcampana+kvm@quarkslab.com>

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:21:06PM +0100, G. Campana wrote:
> This patch series should fix different vulnerabilities found in virtio 9p
> (http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg130505.html), but it definitely needs some
> testing. By the way, the very same path traversal vulnerability was also found
> in Qemu in August: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/30/1
> and the path traversal fix looks quite similar.

I applied patches 1-4, but patch 5 actually breaks things for me:

[    0.659365] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K (ffff800000c50000 - ffff800000d50000)
[    0.661269] Kernel panic - not syncing: Requested init /virt/init failed (error -36).
[    0.662542] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.9.0-rc4-00005-gf43365ee17f8 #1
[    0.664009] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[    0.664868] Call trace:
[    0.665332] [<ffff000008088428>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1a8
[    0.666342] [<ffff0000080885e4>] show_stack+0x14/0x20
[    0.667284] [<ffff000008376fac>] dump_stack+0x94/0xb8
[    0.668236] [<ffff000008166d64>] panic+0x114/0x27c
[    0.669131] [<ffff00000889bc30>] kernel_init+0xa0/0x100
[    0.670112] [<ffff000008082e80>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x50
[    0.671118] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
[    0.682308] Kernel Offset: disabled
[    0.682889] Memory Limit: none
[    0.683390] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Requested init /virt/init failed (error -36).

I tried replacing the memset of -1 with code to skip to the next file,
but that didn't seem to help.

Will

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-18 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-10 15:21 [PATCH 0/5] [PATCH v2] kvmtool: fix virtio 9p vulnerabilities G. Campana
2016-11-10 15:21 ` [PATCH 1/5] kvmtool: 9p: fix path traversal vulnerabilities G. Campana
2016-11-10 15:21 ` [PATCH 2/5] kvmtool: 9p: fix sprintf vulnerabilities G. Campana
2016-11-10 15:21 ` [PATCH 3/5] kvmtool: 9p: fix strcpy vulnerabilities G. Campana
2016-11-10 15:21 ` [PATCH 4/5] kvmtool: 9p: refactor fixes with get_full_path() G. Campana
2016-11-10 15:21 ` [PATCH 5/5] kvmtool: 9p: fix a buffer overflow in rel_to_abs G. Campana
2016-11-18 17:55 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2016-11-21 10:25   ` [PATCH 0/5] [PATCH v2] kvmtool: fix virtio 9p vulnerabilities G. Campana
2016-11-21 10:33     ` Andre Przywara
2016-11-21 10:48       ` [PATCH 0/5] [PATCH v2] kvmtool: 9p: fix regression introduced by previous patch G. Campana

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