linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 14/16] kvm: fix kvm_ioctl_create_device() reference counting (CVE-2019-6974)

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Date:   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 05:20:18 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        "Jann Horn" <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 14/16] kvm: fix kvm_ioctl_create_device() reference
 counting (CVE-2019-6974)

3.16.64-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>

commit cfa39381173d5f969daf43582c95ad679189cbc9 upstream.

kvm_ioctl_create_device() does the following:

1. creates a device that holds a reference to the VM object (with a borrowed
   reference, the VM's refcount has not been bumped yet)
2. initializes the device
3. transfers the reference to the device to the caller's file descriptor table
4. calls kvm_get_kvm() to turn the borrowed reference to the VM into a real
   reference

The ownership transfer in step 3 must not happen before the reference to the VM
becomes a proper, non-borrowed reference, which only happens in step 4.
After step 3, an attacker can close the file descriptor and drop the borrowed
reference, which can cause the refcount of the kvm object to drop to zero.

This means that we need to grab a reference for the device before
anon_inode_getfd(), otherwise the VM can disappear from under us.

Fixes: 852b6d57dc7f ("kvm: add device control API")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2340,8 +2340,10 @@ static int kvm_ioctl_create_device(struc
 	if (ops->init)
 		ops->init(dev);

+	kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
 	ret = anon_inode_getfd(ops->name, &kvm_device_fops, dev, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
 	if (ret < 0) {
+		kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
 		mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
 		list_del(&dev->vm_node);
 		mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
@@ -2349,7 +2351,6 @@ static int kvm_ioctl_create_device(struc
 		return ret;
 	}

-	kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
 	cd->fd = ret;
 	return 0;
 }