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    KVM: x86: Disallow hypercalls for guest callers in rings > 0 · 07708c4a
    Jan Kiszka authored
    So far unprivileged guest callers running in ring 3 can issue, e.g., MMU
    hypercalls. Normally, such callers cannot provide any hand-crafted MMU
    command structure as it has to be passed by its physical address, but
    they can still crash the guest kernel by passing random addresses.
    
    To close the hole, this patch considers hypercalls valid only if issued
    from guest ring 0. This may still be relaxed on a per-hypercall base in
    the future once required.
    
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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