linux-kernel - KVM: x86: Cancel pvclock_gtod

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Date:   Wed, 05 May 2021 23:48:17 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: KVM: x86: Cancel pvclock_gtod_work on module removal

Nothing prevents the following:

  pvclock_gtod_notify()
    queue_work(system_long_wq, &pvclock_gtod_work);
  ...
  remove_module(kvm);
  ...
  work_queue_run()
    pvclock_gtod_work()	<- UAF

Ditto for any other operation on that workqueue list head which touches
pvclock_gtod_work after module removal.

Cancel the work in kvm_arch_exit() to prevent that.

Fixes: 16e8d74d2da9 ("KVM: x86: notifier for clocksource changes")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
Found by inspection because of:
  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0000000000001d43ac05c0f5c6a0@google.com
See also:
  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505105940.190490250@infradead.org

TL;DR: Scheduling work with tk_core.seq write held is a bad idea.
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -8168,6 +8168,7 @@ void kvm_arch_exit(void)
 	cpuhp_remove_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_X86_KVM_CLK_ONLINE);
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	pvclock_gtod_unregister_notifier(&pvclock_gtod_notifier);
+	cancel_work_sync(&pvclock_gtod_work);
 #endif
 	kvm_x86_ops.hardware_enable = NULL;
 	kvm_mmu_module_exit();