[PATCH 5.16 272/285] KVM: avoid NULL pointer dereference in kvm_dirty_ring_push

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-12T08:11:16Z

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

commit 5593473a1e6c743764b08e3b6071cb43b5cfa6c4 upstream.

kvm_vcpu_release() will call kvm_dirty_ring_free(), freeing
ring->dirty_gfns and setting it to NULL. Afterwards, it calls
kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy().

However, if closing the file descriptor races with KVM_RUN in such away
that vcpu->arch.st.preempted == 0, the following call stack leads to a
NULL pointer dereference in kvm_dirty_run_push():

mark_page_dirty_in_slot+0x192/0x270 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3171
kvm_steal_time_set_preempted arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:4600 [inline]
kvm_arch_vcpu_put+0x34e/0x5b0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:4618
vcpu_put+0x1b/0x70 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:211
vmx_free_vcpu+0xcb/0x130 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6985
kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy+0x76/0x290 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11219
kvm_vcpu_destroy arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:441 [inline]

The fix is to release the dirty page ring after kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy
has run.

Reported-by: Qiuhao Li <qiuhao@sysec.org>
Reported-by: Gaoning Pan <pgn@zju.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Yongkang Jia <kangel@zju.edu.cn>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -439,8 +439,8 @@ static void kvm_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcp

void kvm_vcpu_destroy(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- kvm_dirty_ring_free(&vcpu->dirty_ring);
kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy(vcpu);
+ kvm_dirty_ring_free(&vcpu->dirty_ring);

/*
* No need for rcu_read_lock as VCPU_RUN is the only place that changes