From: Andy Honig Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:42:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit X-Git-Tag: v3.2.64~20 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=30a340f59414f02434e8b7a880241b2bd657cb7b;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit 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 Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c index 139415e2c5bf5..cced57f8b23b4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c @@ -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)