Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: fix CPUID entries returned by KVM_GET_CPUID2 ioctl

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Thu Jan 28 2021 - 03:37:52 EST


Michael Roth <michael.roth@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Recent commit 255cbecfe0 modified struct kvm_vcpu_arch to make
> 'cpuid_entries' a pointer to an array of kvm_cpuid_entry2 entries
> rather than embedding the array in the struct. KVM_SET_CPUID and
> KVM_SET_CPUID2 were updated accordingly, but KVM_GET_CPUID2 was missed.
>
> As a result, KVM_GET_CPUID2 currently returns random fields from struct
> kvm_vcpu_arch to userspace rather than the expected CPUID values. Fix
> this by treating 'cpuid_entries' as a pointer when copying its
> contents to userspace buffer.
>
> Fixes: 255cbecfe0c9 ("KVM: x86: allocate vcpu->arch.cpuid_entries dynamically")
> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index 13036cf0b912..38172ca627d3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ int kvm_vcpu_ioctl_get_cpuid2(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> if (cpuid->nent < vcpu->arch.cpuid_nent)
> goto out;
> r = -EFAULT;
> - if (copy_to_user(entries, &vcpu->arch.cpuid_entries,
> + if (copy_to_user(entries, vcpu->arch.cpuid_entries,
> vcpu->arch.cpuid_nent * sizeof(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2)))
> goto out;
> return 0;

This is embarrassing but I have a (possible) excuse: copy_to_user's
argument is 'void *' so no warning was produced. Surprisingly, no test
caught the breakage. Thanks for debugging and fixing!

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Vitaly