linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: fix guest-initiated crash with x2apic (CVE-2013-6376)

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Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:31:43 +0100
From:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>
Cc:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, pmatouse@...hat.com, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	larsbull@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: fix guest-initiated crash with x2apic
 (CVE-2013-6376)

2013-12-16 13:55+0100, Radim Krčmář:
> 2013-12-16 14:16+0200, Gleb Natapov:
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 01:01:10PM +0100, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> > > > >  - Where does the 'only one supported cluster' come from?
> > > > > 
> > > > "only one supported cluster" comes from 8 bit cpuid limitation of KVM's x2apic
> > > > implementation. With 8 bit cpuid you can only address cluster 0 in logical mode.
> > > 
> > > One x2apic cluster has 16 cpus and we generate the x2apic LDR correctly,
> > > so 8 bit cpuid can address first 16 clusters as well.
> > > 
> > >   u32 ldr = ((id >> 4) << 16) | (1 << (id & 0xf));
> > > 
> > Interrupt from a device cannot generate such ldr, only IPI can. Only
> > 4 cpus in cluster zero are addressable in clustering mode by a
> > device. Without irq remapping x2apic is a PV interface between host
> > and guest where guest needs to know KVM implementation's limitation to
> > use it.
> 
> Thanks, I'll read more about devices ... still no idea how could they
> address cluster > 15.
> 
> >         I do not see a point in fixing problems in x2apic logical mode
> > emulation right now since it will not make it usable, as long as
> > there is not security problems there.
> 
> Agreed; I wanted to know why this patch was correct, if we cared.
> 
> > > > >    I only see we use 'struct kvm_lapic *logical_map[16][16];', which
> > > > >    supports 16 clusters of 16 apics = first 256 vcpus, so if we map
> > > > >    everything to logical_map[0][0:15], we would not work correctly in
> > > > >    the cluster x2apic, with > 16 vcpus.
> > > > > 
> > > > Such config cannot work today because of 8 bit cpuid limitation. When the limitation
> > > > will be removed KMV_X2APIC_CID_BITS will be set to actual number of bits we want to support.
> > > 
> > > Even with KMV_X2APIC_CID_BITS = 4, which would allow us to support 8 bit
> > > cpuid, we would still deliver interrupts destined for cpuid > 256 to
> > > potentially plugged cpus.
> > Again, KMV_X2APIC_CID_BITS = 4 will not allow us to support 8 bit cpuids
> > unfortunately, not sure what you mean by the second part of the sentence.
> 
> Sorry, I meant that with this change, we map all clusters to cluster 0,
> which has two flaws:
>  - in kvm_lapic_set_base(), the order of vcpu creation determines those

Gah, should have been 'recalculate_apic_map()' ...

The patch would be especially surprising with a dynamic adding of vcpus.

>    assigned to cluster 0, and the rest is unaddressable (overwritten)
>  - we can send IPI to an unplugged high cpuid and it arives in cluster 0
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