From: christoffer.dall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: check IRQ number on userland injection
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:04:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150413100400.GJ6186@cbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5527FFB5.9020103@arm.com>
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 05:52:05PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> On 10/04/15 16:29, Christopher Covington wrote:
> > Hi Andre,
> >
> > On 04/10/2015 11:17 AM, 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:
> >
> >> --- a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> >> @@ -195,7 +195,11 @@ struct kvm_arch_memory_slot {
> >> #define KVM_ARM_IRQ_CPU_IRQ 0
> >> #define KVM_ARM_IRQ_CPU_FIQ 1
> >>
> >> -/* Highest supported SPI, from VGIC_NR_IRQS */
> >> +/*
> >> + * This used to hold the highest supported SPI, but it is now obsolete
> >> + * and only here to provide source code level compatibility with older
> >> + * userland. The highest SPI number can be set via KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS.
> >> + */
> >> #define KVM_ARM_IRQ_GIC_MAX 127
> >
> > If that's the case should it maybe only defined when __KERNEL__ is not defined?
>
> Mmmh, I am not sure it's really worth the hassle. Actually it seems like
> that neither kvmtool nor QEMU use this definition, so it's more or less
> orphaned by now. I am confident we can avoid it sneaking in in the
> kernel again.
>
TBH, I wouldn't object against Marc enclosing the definition in an
#ifdef __KERNEL__.
Thanks,
-Christoffer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-13 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-10 15:17 [PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: check IRQ number on userland injection Andre Przywara
2015-04-10 15:25 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-10 16:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-10 16:46 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-10 15:29 ` Christopher Covington
2015-04-10 16:52 ` Andre Przywara
2015-04-13 10:04 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
2015-04-13 10:21 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-13 10:35 ` Christoffer Dall
2015-04-13 10:21 ` Andre Przywara
2015-04-13 10:02 ` Christoffer Dall
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