[patch 140/149] KVM: Fix wallclock version writing race

[Greg KH]

2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>

Wallclock writing uses an unprotected global variable to hold the version;
this can cause one guest to interfere with another if both write their
wallclock at the same time.

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
(cherry picked from commit 9ed3c444ab8987c7b219173a2f7807e3f71e234e)
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -554,14 +554,22 @@ static int do_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *v
 
 static void kvm_write_wall_clock(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t wall_clock)
 {
-	static int version;
+	int version;
+	int r;
 	struct pvclock_wall_clock wc;
 	struct timespec boot;
 
 	if (!wall_clock)
 		return;
 
-	version++;
+	r = kvm_read_guest(kvm, wall_clock, &version, sizeof(version));
+	if (r)
+		return;
+
+	if (version & 1)
+		++version;  /* first time write, random junk */
+
+	++version;
 
 	kvm_write_guest(kvm, wall_clock, &version, sizeof(version));
 


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