linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 100/103] KVM: x86: Fix of previously incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8480

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Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:59:49 -0800
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com,
	Nadav Amit <namit@...technion.ac.il>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 100/103] KVM: x86: Fix of previously
 incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8480

On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 16:33 -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> 3.13.11-ckt16 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
> 
> commit 63ea0a49ae0b145b91ff2b070c01b66fc75854b9 upstream.
> 
> STR and SLDT with rip-relative operand can cause a host kernel oops.
> Mark them as DstMem as well.

Dropping this one from 3.13-stable, per Nadav's advice to other pre-3.17
stables.

 -Kamal


> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@...technion.ac.il>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> index 4919b95..569c8ed 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> @@ -3733,8 +3733,8 @@ static const struct opcode group5[] = {
>  };
>  
>  static const struct opcode group6[] = {
> -	DI(Prot,	sldt),
> -	DI(Prot,	str),
> +	DI(Prot | DstMem,	sldt),
> +	DI(Prot | DstMem,	str),
>  	II(Prot | Priv | SrcMem16, em_lldt, lldt),
>  	II(Prot | Priv | SrcMem16, em_ltr, ltr),
>  	N, N, N, N,


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