linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 75/83] KVM: x86: work around leak of uninitialized stack contents

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Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:38:25 +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>,
        "Fuqian Huang" <huangfq.daxian@...il.com>,
        "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 75/83] KVM: x86: work around leak of uninitialized
 stack contents

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

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

From: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@...il.com>

commit 541ab2aeb28251bf7135c7961f3a6080eebcc705 upstream.

Emulation of VMPTRST can incorrectly inject a page fault
when passed an operand that points to an MMIO address.
The page fault will use uninitialized kernel stack memory
as the CR2 and error code.

The right behavior would be to abort the VM with a KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR
exit to userspace; however, it is not an easy fix, so for now just ensure
that the error code and CR2 are zero.

Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@...il.com>
[add comment]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -4329,6 +4329,13 @@ static int emulator_write_std(struct x86
 int kvm_write_guest_virt_system(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr, void *val,
 				unsigned int bytes, struct x86_exception *exception)
 {
+	/*
+	 * FIXME: this should call handle_emulation_failure if X86EMUL_IO_NEEDED
+	 * is returned, but our callers are not ready for that and they blindly
+	 * call kvm_inject_page_fault.  Ensure that they at least do not leak
+	 * uninitialized kernel stack memory into cr2 and error code.
+	 */
+	memset(exception, 0, sizeof(*exception));
 	return kvm_write_guest_virt_helper(addr, val, bytes, vcpu,
 					   PFERR_WRITE_MASK, exception);
 }