3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Andy Honig <aho...@google.com>
commit 2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2 upstream.
There's a race condition in the PIT emulation code in KVM. In
__kvm_migrate_pit_timer the pit_timer object is accessed without
synchronization. If the race condition occurs at the wrong time this
can crash the host kernel.
This fixes CVE-2014-3611.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <aho...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
@@ -262,8 +262,10 @@ void __kvm_migrate_pit_timer(struct kvm_
return;
timer = &pit->pit_state.timer;
+ mutex_lock(&pit->pit_state.lock);
if (hrtimer_cancel(timer))
hrtimer_start_expires(timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+ mutex_unlock(&pit->pit_state.lock);
}
static void destroy_pit_timer(struct kvm_pit *pit)
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