[3.16.y-ckt extended stable] Patch "KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 10 11:31:49 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt1.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 262400a71a3ebbb98c800cdd20094d3ea06a281c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Honig <ahonig at google.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:42:54 -0700
Subject: KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit
commit 2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2 upstream.
There's a race condition in the PIT emulation code in KVM. In
__kvm_migrate_pit_timer the pit_timer object is accessed without
synchronization. If the race condition occurs at the wrong time this
can crash the host kernel.
This fixes CVE-2014-3611.
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/i8254.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
index 518d86471b76..298781d4cfb4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
@@ -262,8 +262,10 @@ void __kvm_migrate_pit_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return;
timer = &pit->pit_state.timer;
+ mutex_lock(&pit->pit_state.lock);
if (hrtimer_cancel(timer))
hrtimer_start_expires(timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+ mutex_unlock(&pit->pit_state.lock);
}
static void destroy_pit_timer(struct kvm_pit *pit)
--
2.1.0
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