On 10/05/2017 22:43, Dan Carpenter wrote: > There are PML_ENTITY_NUM elements in the pml_address[] array so the > > should be >= or we write beyond the end of the array when we do: > > pml_address[vmcs12->guest_pml_index--] = gpa; > > This causes a static checker warning but the runtime impact is minimal. > The ->guest_pml_index variable can only be set to PML_ENTITY_NUM by a > buggy hypervisor. The v1 commit message is better actually. You can always replace "buggy" with "malicious". It's a 8 byte write and bits 12-45 of the datum are controlled by the attacker. It's pretty bad (and embarrassing - I'm not sure why I was super-sure that PML_ENTITY_NUM was 511 rather than 512). Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
