Commit 30a340f5 authored by Andy Honig's avatar Andy Honig Committed by Ben Hutchings

KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit

commit 2febc839 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: default avatarAndrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 76715b56
......@@ -264,8 +264,10 @@ void __kvm_migrate_pit_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return;
timer = &pit->pit_state.pit_timer.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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