From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: x86: zero base3 of unusable segments
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 15:30:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30aa71c2-065c-6cd4-298b-a50fbc3d6feb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170518173732.12185-3-rkrcmar@redhat.com>
On 18.05.2017 19:37, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> 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")
> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index b54125b590e8..eed8272dd52e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -5053,6 +5053,8 @@ static bool emulator_get_segment(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, u16 *selector,
>
> if (var.unusable) {
> memset(desc, 0, sizeof(*desc));
> + if (base3)
> + *base3 = 0;
> return false;
> }
>
>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
--
Thanks,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-19 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-18 17:37 [PATCH 0/4] KVM: x86: fix bugs reported by Dan Carpenter Radim Krčmář
2017-05-18 17:37 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: nVMX: fix nested_vmx_check_vmptr failure paths under debugging Radim Krčmář
2017-05-19 13:48 ` [PATCH v2] " Radim Krčmář
2017-05-30 14:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-18 17:37 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: x86: zero base3 of unusable segments Radim Krčmář
2017-05-19 13:30 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2017-05-18 17:37 ` [PATCH 3/4] KVM: x86/vPMU: fix undefined shift in intel_pmu_refresh() Radim Krčmář
2017-05-19 13:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2017-05-18 17:37 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: x86: prevent uninitialized variable warning in check_svme() Radim Krčmář
2017-05-19 13:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2017-05-18 18:52 ` [PATCH 0/4] KVM: x86: fix bugs reported by Dan Carpenter Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-18 19:25 ` Radim Krčmář
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