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 12:35:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150413103548.GK6186@cbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <552B98A0.6020304@arm.com>
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:21:20AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 13/04/15 11:04, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > 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__.
>
> Yeah, I'll fix that up (assuming you mean #ifndef rather than #ifdef).
>
Yes, Monday morning ;)
-Christoffer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-13 10:35 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
2015-04-13 10:21 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-13 10:35 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
2015-04-13 10:21 ` Andre Przywara
2015-04-13 10:02 ` Christoffer Dall
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