[PATCH 3.11 195/208] KVM: x86: Fix potential divide by 0 in lapic (CVE-2013-6367)

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Dec 19 11:54:53 UTC 2013


3.11.10.2 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andy Honig <ahonig at google.com>

commit b963a22e6d1a266a67e9eecc88134713fd54775c upstream.

Under guest controllable circumstances apic_get_tmcct will execute a
divide by zero and cause a crash.  If the guest cpuid support
tsc deadline timers and performs the following sequence of requests
the host will crash.
- Set the mode to periodic
- Set the TMICT to 0
- Set the mode bits to 11 (neither periodic, nor one shot, nor tsc deadline)
- Set the TMICT to non-zero.
Then the lapic_timer.period will be 0, but the TMICT will not be.  If the
guest then reads from the TMCCT then the host will perform a divide by 0.

This patch ensures that if the lapic_timer.period is 0, then the division
does not occur.

Reported-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index afc1124..adbcc08 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -855,7 +855,8 @@ static u32 apic_get_tmcct(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
 	ASSERT(apic != NULL);
 
 	/* if initial count is 0, current count should also be 0 */
-	if (kvm_apic_get_reg(apic, APIC_TMICT) == 0)
+	if (kvm_apic_get_reg(apic, APIC_TMICT) == 0 ||
+		apic->lapic_timer.period == 0)
 		return 0;
 
 	remaining = hrtimer_get_remaining(&apic->lapic_timer.timer);
-- 
1.8.3.2





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