[patch 43/45] lguest: fix spurious BUG_ON() on invalid guest stack.

From: Chris Wright
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 19:40:34 EST


-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

upstream commit: 6afbdd059c27330eccbd85943354f94c2b83a7fe

Impact: fix crash on misbehaving guest

gpte_addr() contains a BUG_ON(), insisting that the present flag is
set. We need to return before we call it if that isn't the case.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/lguest/page_tables.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/lguest/page_tables.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/page_tables.c
@@ -373,8 +373,10 @@ unsigned long guest_pa(struct lg_cpu *cp
/* First step: get the top-level Guest page table entry. */
gpgd = lgread(cpu, gpgd_addr(cpu, vaddr), pgd_t);
/* Toplevel not present? We can't map it in. */
- if (!(pgd_flags(gpgd) & _PAGE_PRESENT))
+ if (!(pgd_flags(gpgd) & _PAGE_PRESENT)) {
kill_guest(cpu, "Bad address %#lx", vaddr);
+ return -1UL;
+ }

gpte = lgread(cpu, gpte_addr(gpgd, vaddr), pte_t);
if (!(pte_flags(gpte) & _PAGE_PRESENT))

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