linux-kernel - [PATCH] do not try to register kvmclock if the host does not support it.

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>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1291220455-29483-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed,  1 Dec 2010 11:20:55 -0500
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	avi@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH] do not try to register kvmclock if the host does not support it.

With the new Async PF code, some of our initiation code was moved to
kvm.c. With that, code that was being issued conditional to kvmclock
successful registration (primary cpu registering), started being
issued unconditionally.

This patch proposes that we protect all registrations inside
kvm_register_clock, re-using the kvmclock-enabled parameter for that.
This fixes this specific bug, and should protect us from similar
changes in the future.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
index f98d3ea..fcdea34 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ int kvm_register_clock(char *txt)
 	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	int low, high, ret;

+	if (!kvmclock)
+		return 0;
+
 	low = (int)__pa(&per_cpu(hv_clock, cpu)) | 1;
 	high = ((u64)__pa(&per_cpu(hv_clock, cpu)) >> 32);
 	ret = native_write_msr_safe(msr_kvm_system_time, low, high);
@@ -182,14 +185,19 @@ void __init kvmclock_init(void)
 	if (kvmclock && kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2)) {
 		msr_kvm_system_time = MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME_NEW;
 		msr_kvm_wall_clock = MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK_NEW;
-	} else if (!(kvmclock && kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE)))
+	} else if (!(kvmclock && kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE))) {
+		kvmclock = 0;
 		return;
+	}

 	printk(KERN_INFO "kvm-clock: Using msrs %x and %x",
 		msr_kvm_system_time, msr_kvm_wall_clock);

-	if (kvm_register_clock("boot clock"))
+	if (kvm_register_clock("boot clock")) {
+		kvmclock = 0;
 		return;
+	}
+
 	pv_time_ops.sched_clock = kvm_clock_read;
 	x86_platform.calibrate_tsc = kvm_get_tsc_khz;
 	x86_platform.get_wallclock = kvm_get_wallclock;
-- 
1.6.2.5

--
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/