From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> This ioctl is obsolete (it was used by Xenner as far as I know) but still let's not break it gratuitously... Its handler is copying directly into struct kvm. Go through a bounce buffer instead, with the added benefit that we can actually do something useful with the flags argument---the previous code was exiting with -EINVAL but still doing the copy. This technically is a userspace ABI breakage, but since no one should be using the ioctl, it's a good occasion to see if someone actually complains. Cc: kernel-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index eee8e7faf1af..6c16461e3a86 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -4238,13 +4238,14 @@ long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp, mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock); break; case KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG: { + struct kvm_xen_hvm_config xhc; r = -EFAULT; - if (copy_from_user(&kvm->arch.xen_hvm_config, argp, - sizeof(struct kvm_xen_hvm_config))) + if (copy_from_user(&xhc, argp, sizeof(xhc))) goto out; r = -EINVAL; - if (kvm->arch.xen_hvm_config.flags) + if (xhc.flags) goto out; + memcpy(&kvm->arch.xen_hvm_config, &xhc, sizeof(xhc)); r = 0; break; } -- 2.7.4