[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 30 12:32:47 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries

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/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt21.

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 81d8a2fddba348331e58e5deda7479872f173a38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Hildenbrand <dahi at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:41:29 +0100
Subject: KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries

commit c5c2c393468576bad6d10b2b5fefff8cd25df3f4 upstream.

We seemed to have missed a few corner cases in commit f6c137ff00a4
("KVM: s390: randomize sca address").

The SCA has a maximum size of 2112 bytes. By setting the sca_offset to
some unlucky numbers, we exceed the page.

0x7c0 (1984) -> Fits exactly
0x7d0 (2000) -> 16 bytes out
0x7e0 (2016) -> 32 bytes out
0x7f0 (2032) -> 48 bytes out

One VCPU entry is 32 bytes long.

For the last two cases, we actually write data to the other page.
1. The address of the VCPU.
2. Injection/delivery/clearing of SIGP externall calls via SIGP IF.

Especially the 2. happens regularly. So this could produce two problems:
1. The guest losing/getting external calls.
2. Random memory overwrites in the host.

So this problem happens on every 127 + 128 created VM with 64 VCPUs.

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index 5e9217d96cfe..fd8a8373c275 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -429,7 +429,9 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
 	if (!kvm->arch.sca)
 		goto out_err;
 	spin_lock(&kvm_lock);
-	sca_offset = (sca_offset + 16) & 0x7f0;
+	sca_offset += 16;
+	if (sca_offset + sizeof(struct sca_block) > PAGE_SIZE)
+		sca_offset = 0;
 	kvm->arch.sca = (struct sca_block *) ((char *) kvm->arch.sca + sca_offset);
 	spin_unlock(&kvm_lock);





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