From: cov@codeaurora.org (Christopher Covington)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: check IRQ number on userland injection
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:29:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5527EC52.4050500@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428679079-16499-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com>
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?
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-10 15:29 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 [this message]
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
2015-04-13 10:21 ` Andre Przywara
2015-04-13 10:02 ` Christoffer Dall
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