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author | Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> | 2014-10-17 22:55:59 +0200 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-11-14 08:47:56 -0800 |
commit | 3ea61129fec62fbb7fba38e60d00e4f9d776cfa5 (patch) | |
tree | 73a0c4af929edbae9bbe6f2f54276862ca0776db /Documentation/RCU | |
parent | 6033d64297fac0c26284fe9b7ca8751906dcf277 (diff) | |
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kvm: fix excessive pages un-pinning in kvm_iommu_map error path.
commit 3d32e4dbe71374a6780eaf51d719d76f9a9bf22f upstream.
The third parameter of kvm_unpin_pages() when called from
kvm_iommu_map_pages() is wrong, it should be the number of pages to un-pin
and not the page size.
This error was facilitated with an inconsistent API: kvm_pin_pages() takes
a size, but kvn_unpin_pages() takes a number of pages, so fix the problem
by matching the two.
This was introduced by commit 350b8bd ("kvm: iommu: fix the third parameter
of kvm_iommu_put_pages (CVE-2014-3601)"), which fixes the lack of
un-pinning for pages intended to be un-pinned (i.e. memory leak) but
unfortunately potentially aggravated the number of pages we un-pin that
should have stayed pinned. As far as I understand though, the same
practical mitigations apply.
This issue was found during review of Red Hat 6.6 patches to prepare
Ksplice rebootless updates.
Thanks to Vegard for his time on a late Friday evening to help me in
understanding this code.
Fixes: 350b8bd ("kvm: iommu: fix the third parameter of... (CVE-2014-3601)")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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