linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 23/46] KVM: Fix UAF in nested posted interrupt processing

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Date:   Fri, 28 Dec 2018 12:52:17 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Andy Honig <ahonig@...gle.com>,
        Cfir Cohen <cfir@...gle.com>,
        Liran Alon <liran.alon@...cle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 23/46] KVM: Fix UAF in nested posted interrupt processing

4.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Cfir Cohen <cfir@...gle.com>

commit c2dd5146e9fe1f22c77c1b011adf84eea0245806 upstream.

nested_get_vmcs12_pages() processes the posted_intr address in vmcs12. It
caches the kmap()ed page object and pointer, however, it doesn't handle
errors correctly: it's possible to cache a valid pointer, then release
the page and later dereference the dangling pointer.

I was able to reproduce with the following steps:

1. Call vmlaunch with valid posted_intr_desc_addr but an invalid
MSR_EFER. This causes nested_get_vmcs12_pages() to cache the kmap()ed
pi_desc_page and pi_desc. Later the invalid EFER value fails
check_vmentry_postreqs() which fails the first vmlaunch.

2. Call vmlanuch with a valid EFER but an invalid posted_intr_desc_addr
(I set it to 2G - 0x80). The second time we call nested_get_vmcs12_pages
pi_desc_page is unmapped and released and pi_desc_page is set to NULL
(the "shouldn't happen" clause). Due to the invalid
posted_intr_desc_addr, kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() fails and
nested_get_vmcs12_pages() returns. It doesn't return an error value so
vmlaunch proceeds. Note that at this time we have a dangling pointer in
vmx->nested.pi_desc and POSTED_INTR_DESC_ADDR in L0's vmcs.

3. Issue an IPI in L2 guest code. This triggers a call to
vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt() and pi_test_and_clear_on() which
dereferences the dangling pointer.

Vulnerable code requires nested and enable_apicv variables to be set to
true. The host CPU must also support posted interrupts.

Fixes: 5e2f30b756a37 "KVM: nVMX: get rid of nested_get_page()"
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Andy Honig <ahonig@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Cfir Cohen <cfir@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -11471,6 +11471,8 @@ static void nested_get_vmcs12_pages(stru
 			kunmap(vmx->nested.pi_desc_page);
 			kvm_release_page_dirty(vmx->nested.pi_desc_page);
 			vmx->nested.pi_desc_page = NULL;
+			vmx->nested.pi_desc = NULL;
+			vmcs_write64(POSTED_INTR_DESC_ADDR, -1ull);
 		}
 		page = kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page(vcpu, vmcs12->posted_intr_desc_addr);
 		if (is_error_page(page))