From: Andy Honig Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:42:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit X-Git-Tag: v3.4.106~103 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=375c51cd3742b2d38f9e2d905778a3d7c3aca962;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 [lizf: Backported to 3.4: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Zefan Li --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c index d68f99df690c7..db336f9f2c8c5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c @@ -263,8 +263,10 @@ 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)