linux-kernel - [PATCH] kvm: fix irqfd assign/deassign race

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:02:31 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: fix irqfd assign/deassign race

I think I see the following (theoretical) race:

During irqfd assign, we drop irqfds lock before we
schedule inject work. Therefore, deassign running
on another CPU could cause shutdown and flush to run
before inject, causing user after free in inject.

A simple fix it to schedule inject under the lock.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
---

If the issue is real, this might be a 2.6.36 and -stable
candidate. Comments?

 virt/kvm/eventfd.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
index 66cf65b..c1f1e3c 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
@@ -218,7 +218,6 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, int fd, int gsi)
 	events = file->f_op->poll(file, &irqfd->pt);
 
 	list_add_tail(&irqfd->list, &kvm->irqfds.items);
-	spin_unlock_irq(&kvm->irqfds.lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * Check if there was an event already pending on the eventfd
@@ -227,6 +226,8 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, int fd, int gsi)
 	if (events & POLLIN)
 		schedule_work(&irqfd->inject);
 
+	spin_unlock_irq(&kvm->irqfds.lock);
+
 	/*
 	 * do not drop the file until the irqfd is fully initialized, otherwise
 	 * we might race against the POLLHUP
-- 
1.7.2.2
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/