[PATCH] kvm: fix poison overwritten caused by using wrong xstate size

From: Xiaotian Feng
Date: Fri Aug 13 2010 - 03:19:45 EST


fpu.state is allocated from task_xstate_cachep, the size of task_xstate_cachep
is xstate_size. xstate_size is set from cpuid instruction, which is often
smaller than sizeof(struct xsave_struct). kvm is using sizeof(struct xsave_struct)
to fill in/out fpu.state.xsave, as what we allocated for fpu.state is
xstate_size, kernel will write out of memory and caused poison/redzone/padding
overwritten warnings.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/i387.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
index 1f11f5c..a46cb35 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@

static unsigned int mxcsr_feature_mask __read_mostly = 0xffffffffu;
unsigned int xstate_size;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xstate_size);
unsigned int sig_xstate_ia32_size = sizeof(struct _fpstate_ia32);
static struct i387_fxsave_struct fx_scratch __cpuinitdata;

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 25f1907..3a09c62 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2387,7 +2387,7 @@ static void kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_get_xsave(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
if (cpu_has_xsave)
memcpy(guest_xsave->region,
&vcpu->arch.guest_fpu.state->xsave,
- sizeof(struct xsave_struct));
+ xstate_size);
else {
memcpy(guest_xsave->region,
&vcpu->arch.guest_fpu.state->fxsave,
@@ -2405,7 +2405,7 @@ static int kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_set_xsave(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,

if (cpu_has_xsave)
memcpy(&vcpu->arch.guest_fpu.state->xsave,
- guest_xsave->region, sizeof(struct xsave_struct));
+ guest_xsave->region, xstate_size);
else {
if (xstate_bv & ~XSTATE_FPSSE)
return -EINVAL;
--
1.7.2.1

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