Re: [PATCH v4.14.y 0/3] vfio: Fix for CVE-2020-12888

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 08:29:04AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 01:47:08 +0530
> Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com> wrote:
> 
> > CVE-2020-12888 Kernel: vfio: access to disabled MMIO space of some
> > devices may lead to DoS scenario
> >     
> > The VFIO modules allow users (guest VMs) to enable or disable access to the
> > devices' MMIO memory address spaces. If a user attempts to access (read/write)
> > the devices' MMIO address space when it is disabled, some h/w devices issue an
> > interrupt to the CPU to indicate a fatal error condition, crashing the system.
> > This flaw allows a guest user or process to crash the host system resulting in
> > a denial of service.
> >     
> > Patch 1/ is to force the user fault if PFNMAP vma might be DMA mapped
> > before user access.
> >     
> > Patch 2/ setup a vm_ops handler to support dynamic faulting instead of calling
> > remap_pfn_range(). Also provides a list of vmas actively mapping the area which
> > can later use to invalidate those mappings.
> >     
> > Patch 3/ block the user from accessing memory spaces which is disabled by using
> > new vma list support to zap, or invalidate, those memory mappings in order to
> > force them to be faulted back in on access.
> >     
> > Upstreamed patches link:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/158871401328.15589.17598154478222071285.stgit@gimli.home
> >         
> > [PATCH v4.14.y 1/3]:
> > Backporting of upsream commit 41311242221e:
> > vfio/type1: Support faulting PFNMAP vmas
> >         
> > [PATCH v4.14.y 2/3]:
> > Backporting of upsream commit 11c4cd07ba11:
> > vfio-pci: Fault mmaps to enable vma tracking
> >         
> > [PATCH v4.14.y 3/3]:
> > Backporting of upsream commit abafbc551fdd:
> > vfio-pci: Invalidate mmaps and block MMIO access on disabled memory
> > 
> 
> I'd recommend also including the following or else SR-IOV VFs will be
> broken for DPDK:
> 
> commit ebfa440ce38b7e2e04c3124aa89c8a9f4094cf21
> Author: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Date:   Thu Jun 25 11:04:23 2020 -0600
> 
>     vfio/pci: Fix SR-IOV VF handling with MMIO blocking
>     
>     SR-IOV VFs do not implement the memory enable bit of the command
>     register, therefore this bit is not set in config space after
>     pci_enable_device().  This leads to an unintended difference
>     between PF and VF in hand-off state to the user.  We can correct
>     this by setting the initial value of the memory enable bit in our
>     virtualized config space.  There's really no need however to
>     ever fault a user on a VF though as this would only indicate an
>     error in the user's management of the enable bit, versus a PF
>     where the same access could trigger hardware faults.
>     
>     Fixes: abafbc551fdd ("vfio-pci: Invalidate mmaps and block MMIO access on disabled memory")
>     Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

Good catch, now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h