From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiang Jiasheng <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
wanpengli@tencent.com, jmattson@google.com, joro@8bytes.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, jarkko@kernel.org,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: X86: Potential 'index out of range' bug
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 15:03:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTI5SYVTJHiMdm+W@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czppnasv.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com>
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Jiang Jiasheng <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn> writes:
>
> > The kvm_get_vcpu() will call for the array_index_nospec()
> > with the value of atomic_read(&(v->kvm)->online_vcpus) as size,
> > and the value of constant '0' as index.
> > If the size is also '0', it will be unreasonabe
> > that the index is no less than the size.
> >
>
> Can this really happen?
>
> 'online_vcpus' is never decreased, it is increased with every
> kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu() call when a new vCPU is created and is set to
> 0 when all vCPUs are destroyed (kvm_free_vcpus()).
>
> kvm_guest_time_update() takes a vcpu as a parameter, this means that at
> least 1 vCPU is currently present so 'online_vcpus' just can't be zero.
Agreed, but doing kvm_get_vcpu() is ugly and overkill.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 86539c1686fa..cc1cb9a401cd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2969,7 +2969,7 @@ static int kvm_guest_time_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
offsetof(struct compat_vcpu_info, time));
if (vcpu->xen.vcpu_time_info_set)
kvm_setup_pvclock_page(v, &vcpu->xen.vcpu_time_info_cache, 0);
- if (v == kvm_get_vcpu(v->kvm, 0))
+ if (!kvm_vcpu_get_idx(v))
kvm_hv_setup_tsc_page(v->kvm, &vcpu->hv_clock);
return 0;
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-03 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-03 7:55 [PATCH 4/4] KVM: X86: Potential 'index out of range' bug Jiang Jiasheng
2021-09-03 11:44 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-09-03 15:03 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2021-09-06 11:07 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-09-08 18:42 ` Sean Christopherson
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