This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon
to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kvm-fix-page-struct-leak-in-handle_vmon.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 06ce521af9558814b8606c0476c54497cf83a653 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:56:21 +0100
Subject: kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 06ce521af9558814b8606c0476c54497cf83a653 upstream.
handle_vmon gets a reference on VMXON region page,
but does not release it. Release the reference.
Found by syzkaller; based on a patch by Dmitry.
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Charles (Chas) Williams" <ciwillia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -7086,13 +7086,18 @@ static int nested_vmx_check_vmptr(struct
}
page = nested_get_page(vcpu, vmptr);
- if (page == NULL ||
- *(u32 *)kmap(page) != VMCS12_REVISION) {
+ if (page == NULL) {
nested_vmx_failInvalid(vcpu);
+ return kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
+ }
+ if (*(u32 *)kmap(page) != VMCS12_REVISION) {
kunmap(page);
+ nested_release_page_clean(page);
+ nested_vmx_failInvalid(vcpu);
return kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
}
kunmap(page);
+ nested_release_page_clean(page);
vmx->nested.vmxon_ptr = vmptr;
break;
case EXIT_REASON_VMCLEAR:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.10/kvm-fix-page-struct-leak-in-handle_vmon.patch