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KVM: Reject device ioctls from processes other than the VM's creator
authorSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:48:39 +0000 (12:48 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 3 Apr 2019 04:27:38 +0000 (06:27 +0200)
commitd50d46e303d49c7a7283c94cac1e576e479e4a27
tree3bdb445ea05dd95e51e68716ab5f58c7b4ba3e31
parent8c0823aa123b7b4cd5ebc9fbed324dbe4a37755d
KVM: Reject device ioctls from processes other than the VM's creator

commit ddba91801aeb5c160b660caed1800eb3aef403f8 upstream.

KVM's API requires thats ioctls must be issued from the same process
that created the VM.  In other words, userspace can play games with a
VM's file descriptors, e.g. fork(), SCM_RIGHTS, etc..., but only the
creator can do anything useful.  Explicitly reject device ioctls that
are issued by a process other than the VM's creator, and update KVM's
API documentation to extend its requirements to device ioctls.

Fixes: 852b6d57dc7f ("kvm: add device control API")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c