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* [PATCH v4 0/3] Xen iopl fixes
@ 2016-03-16 21:14 Andy Lutomirski
  2016-03-16 21:14 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] selftests/x86: Add a iopl test Andy Lutomirski
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From: Andy Lutomirski @ 2016-03-16 21:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: x86, Andrew Cooper, Jan Beulich
  Cc: Borislav Petkov, David Vrabel, Boris Ostrovsky, linux-kernel,
	Andy Lutomirski

Hi all-

For those who are seeing this for the first time: any 64-bit Xen PV
domain with IO port access privileges (in practice, this means dom0
AFAIK) and any user programs that use iopl(3) (various old X
drivers, presumably) is probably vulnerable to privilege escalations
by unprivileged programs running in the same PV domain.

There's a long public description of the issue here:

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-171.html

Changes from v3:
 - Add Jan's R-b.
 - No longer embargoed

Changes from v2: Pretend v2 never happened...

Changes from v1: Use xen/hypervisor.h instead of xen-ops.h (Jan)

Andy Lutomirski (3):
  selftests/x86: Add a iopl test
  x86/iopl/64: Properly context-switch IOPL on Xen PV
  x86/iopl: Fix iopl capability check on Xen PV

 arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h |   2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c              |  12 ++-
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c          |  12 +++
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c              |   2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile  |   2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/iopl.c    | 135 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/x86/iopl.c

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2.5.0

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