Commit 338c7dbadd26 ("KVM: Improve create VCPU parameter (CVE-2013-4587)") introduced a check to prevent potential kernel memory corruption in case the vcpu id is too great. Unfortunately this check assumes vcpu ids grow in sequence with a common difference of 1, which is wrong: archs are free to use vcpu id as they fit. For example, QEMU originated vcpu ids for PowerPC cpus running in boot3s_hv mode, can grow with a common difference of 2, 4 or 8: if KVM_MAX_VCPUS is 1024, guests may be limited down to 128 vcpus on POWER8. This means the check does not belong here and should be moved to some arch specific function: kvm_arch_vcpu_create() looks like a good candidate. ARM and s390 already have such a check. I could not spot any path in the PowerPC or common KVM code where a vcpu id is used as described in the above commit: I believe PowerPC can live without this check. In the end, this patch simply moves the check to MIPS and x86. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: move kzalloc() after the check in MIPS to avoid memory leak arch/mips/kvm/mips.c | 5 ++++- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +++ virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 --- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c index 70ef1a43c114..c1ce9d44d685 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c +++ b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c @@ -248,9 +248,12 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id) int err, size, offset; void *gebase; int i; + struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu; - struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_vcpu), GFP_KERNEL); + if (id >= KVM_MAX_VCPUS) + return -EINVAL; + vcpu = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_vcpu), GFP_KERNEL); if (!vcpu) { err = -ENOMEM; goto out; diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 9b7798c7b210..f705d57b12ed 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -7358,6 +7358,9 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm *kvm, { struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu; + if (id >= KVM_MAX_VCPUS) + return -EINVAL; + if (check_tsc_unstable() && atomic_read(&kvm->online_vcpus) != 0) printk_once(KERN_WARNING "kvm: SMP vm created on host with unstable TSC; " diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index 4fd482fb9260..6b6cca3cb488 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -2272,9 +2272,6 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, u32 id) int r; struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu; - if (id >= KVM_MAX_VCPUS) - return -EINVAL; - vcpu = kvm_arch_vcpu_create(kvm, id); if (IS_ERR(vcpu)) return PTR_ERR(vcpu);