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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] x86: kvm: x86: fix information leak to userland
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:19:37 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101101171937.GA4484@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101030185447.GA7629@albatros>

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:54:47PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Structures kvm_vcpu_events, kvm_debugregs, kvm_pit_state2 and
> kvm_clock_data are copied to userland with some padding and reserved
> fields unitialized.  It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack
> memory.  We have to initialize them to zero.
> 
> In patch v1 Jan Kiszka suggested to fill reserved fields with zeros
> instead of memset'ting the whole struct.  It makes sense as these
> fields are explicitly marked as padding.  No more fields need zeroing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Compile tesed only.
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-01 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-30 14:11 [PATCH v2] x86: kvm: fix information leak to userland Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-10-30 14:34 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-10-30 15:31   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-10-30 15:46     ` Jan Kiszka
2010-10-30 18:54       ` [patch v2] x86: kvm: x86: " Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-11-01 17:19         ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2011-07-26 17:05         ` Alexander Graf
2011-07-26 17:24           ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-26 17:38             ` Alexander Graf
2011-07-26 17:28           ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-26 17:39             ` Alexander Graf

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