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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Marios Pomonis <pomonis@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	rkrcmar@redhat.com,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Finco <nifi@google.com>,
	Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/13] KVM: x86: Protect kvm_hv_msr_[get|set]_crash_data() from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:31:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <314f6d96-b75f-e159-d94d-1d30a5140e40@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191211204753.242298-3-pomonis@google.com>



On 11.12.19 21:47, Marios Pomonis wrote:
> This fixes Spectre-v1/L1TF vulnerabilities in kvm_hv_msr_get_crash_data()
> and kvm_hv_msr_set_crash_data().
> These functions contain index computations that use the
> (attacker-controlled) MSR number.
> 
> Fixes: commit e7d9513b60e8 ("kvm/x86: added hyper-v crash msrs into kvm hyperv context")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Finco <nifi@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marios Pomonis <pomonis@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c b/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c
> index 23ff65504d7e..26408434b9bc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c
> @@ -809,11 +809,12 @@ static int kvm_hv_msr_get_crash_data(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  				     u32 index, u64 *pdata)
>  {
>  	struct kvm_hv *hv = &vcpu->kvm->arch.hyperv;
> +	size_t size = ARRAY_SIZE(hv->hv_crash_param);
> 
> -	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(index >= ARRAY_SIZE(hv->hv_crash_param)))
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(index >= size))
>  		return -EINVAL;

The fact that we do a WARN_ON_ONCE here, should actually tell that index is not
user controllable. Otherwise this would indicate the possibility to trigger a 
kernel warning from a malicious user space. So
a: we do not need this change
or
b: we must also fix the WARN_ON_ONCE



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-12 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-11 20:47 [PATCH v2 00/13] KVM: x86: Extend Spectre-v1 mitigation Marios Pomonis
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] KVM: x86: Protect x86_decode_insn from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:16   ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] KVM: x86: Protect kvm_hv_msr_[get|set]_crash_data() " Marios Pomonis
2019-12-12  9:43   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-12-12 17:11     ` Marios Pomonis
2019-12-12 17:31   ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2019-12-12 17:44     ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-12 17:47       ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-01-06 20:16         ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] KVM: x86: Refactor picdev_write() to prevent " Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:17   ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] KVM: x86: Protect ioapic_read_indirect() from " Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:17   ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] KVM: x86: Protect ioapic_write_indirect() " Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:17   ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] KVM: x86: Protect kvm_lapic_reg_write() " Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:17   ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] KVM: x86: Protect MSR-based index computations in fixed_msr_to_seg_unit() " Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:18   ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] KVM: x86: Protect MSR-based index computations in pmu.h " Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:18   ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] KVM: x86: Protect MSR-based index computations from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks in x86.c Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:18   ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] KVM: x86: Protect memory accesses " Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:19   ` Jim Mattson
2020-01-18 20:13   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] KVM: x86: Protect exit_reason from being used in Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks Marios Pomonis
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] KVM: x86: Protect DR-based index computations from " Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:19   ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-11 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] KVM: x86: Protect pmu_intel.c " Marios Pomonis
2020-01-06 20:19   ` Jim Mattson
2020-01-18 20:18 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] KVM: x86: Extend Spectre-v1 mitigation Paolo Bonzini

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