[PATCH 1/2] KVM: nVMX: update last_nonleaf_level when initializing nested EPT

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Wed Oct 25 12:53:58 UTC 2017


From: Ladi Prosek <lprosek at redhat.com>

The function updates context->root_level but didn't call
update_last_nonleaf_level so the previous and potentially wrong value
was used for page walks.  For example, a zero value of last_nonleaf_level
would allow a potential out-of-bounds access in arch/x86/mmu/paging_tmpl.h's
walk_addr_generic function (CVE-2017-12188).

Fixes: 155a97a3d7c78b46cef6f1a973c831bc5a4f82bb
Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek <lprosek at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>

CVE-2017-12188

(cherry-picked from commit fd19d3b45164466a4adce7cbff448ba9189e1427)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 7012de4..1e8a0e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -4158,6 +4158,7 @@ void kvm_init_shadow_ept_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool execonly)
 
 	update_permission_bitmask(vcpu, context, true);
 	update_pkru_bitmask(vcpu, context, true);
+	update_last_nonleaf_level(vcpu, context);
 	reset_rsvds_bits_mask_ept(vcpu, context, execonly);
 	reset_ept_shadow_zero_bits_mask(vcpu, context, execonly);
 }
-- 
2.7.4





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