MSR 0x2f8 accessed the 124th Variable Range MTRR ever since MTRR support
was introduced by
9ba075a664df ("KVM: MTRR support").
0x2f8 became harmful when
910a6aae4e2e ("KVM: MTRR: exactly define the
size of variable MTRRs") shrinked the array of VR MTRRs from 256 to 8,
which made access to index 124 out of bounds. The surrounding code only
WARNs in this situation, thus the guest gained a limited read/write
access to struct kvm_arch_vcpu.
0x2f8 is not a valid VR MTRR MSR, because KVM has/advertises only 16 VR
MTRR MSRs, 0x200-0x20f. Every VR MTRR is set up using two MSRs, 0x2f8
was treated as a PHYSBASE and 0x2f9 would be its PHYSMASK, but 0x2f9 was
not implemented in KVM, therefore 0x2f8 could never do anything useful
and getting rid of it is safe.
This fixes CVE-2016-3713.
Fixes: 910a6aae4e2e ("KVM: MTRR: exactly define the size of variable MTRRs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kvm/mtrr.c
Though the commit
910a6aae4e2e is not present in this stream and as
per the upstream commit
9842df62004f, 0x2f8 is not a valid VR MTRR MSR,
getting rid of it is safe.
Orabug:
23276795
CVE: CVE-2016-3713
(cherry picked from commit
9842df62004f366b9fed2423e24df10542ee0dc5)
Signed-off-by: Somasundaram Krishnasamy <somasundaram.krishnasamy@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>