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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:12:10 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 08/35] KVM: Introduce KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2023, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 10/27/23 20:21, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > >
> > > + if (ioctl == KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION)
> > > + size = sizeof(struct kvm_userspace_memory_region);
> >
> > This also needs a memset(&mem, 0, sizeof(mem)), otherwise the out-of-bounds
> > access of the commit message becomes a kernel stack read.
>
> Ouch. There's some irony. Might be worth doing memset(&mem, -1, sizeof(mem))
> though as '0' is a valid file descriptor and a valid file offset.
>
> > Probably worth adding a check on valid flags here.
>
> Definitely needed. There's a very real bug here. But rather than duplicate flags
> checking or plumb @ioctl all the way to __kvm_set_memory_region(), now that we
> have the fancy guard(mutex) and there are no internal calls to kvm_set_memory_region(),
> what if we:
>
> 1. Acquire/release slots_lock in __kvm_set_memory_region()
Gah, this won't work with x86's usage, which acquire slots_lock quite far away
from __kvm_set_memory_region() in several places. The rest of the idea still
works, kvm_vm_ioctl_set_memory_region() will just need to take slots_lock manually.
> 2. Call kvm_set_memory_region() from x86 code for the internal memslots
> 3. Disallow *any* flags for internal memslots
> 4. Open code check_memory_region_flags in kvm_vm_ioctl_set_memory_region()
> 5. Pass @ioctl to kvm_vm_ioctl_set_memory_region() and allow KVM_MEM_PRIVATE
> only for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2
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