[PATCH 3.16 04/12] KVM: x86: fix emulation of "MOV SS, null selector"

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Feb 24 2017 - 08:12:39 EST


3.16.41-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 33ab91103b3415e12457e3104f0e4517ce12d0f3 upstream.

This is CVE-2017-2583. On Intel this causes a failed vmentry because
SS's type is neither 3 nor 7 (even though the manual says this check is
only done for usable SS, and the dmesg splat says that SS is unusable!).
On AMD it's worse: svm.c is confused and sets CPL to 0 in the vmcb.

The fix fabricates a data segment descriptor when SS is set to a null
selector, so that CPL and SS.DPL are set correctly in the VMCS/vmcb.
Furthermore, only allow setting SS to a NULL selector if SS.RPL < 3;
this in turn ensures CPL < 3 because RPL must be equal to CPL.

Thanks to Andy Lutomirski and Willy Tarreau for help in analyzing
the bug and deciphering the manuals.

Reported-by: Xiaohan Zhang <zhangxiaohan1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 79d5b4c3cd809c770d4bf9812635647016c56011
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -1439,7 +1439,6 @@ static int write_segment_descriptor(stru
&ctxt->exception);
}

-/* Does not support long mode */
static int __load_segment_descriptor(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
u16 selector, int seg, u8 cpl,
bool in_task_switch,
@@ -1475,20 +1474,34 @@ static int __load_segment_descriptor(str

rpl = selector & 3;

- /* NULL selector is not valid for TR, CS and SS (except for long mode) */
- if ((seg == VCPU_SREG_CS
- || (seg == VCPU_SREG_SS
- && (ctxt->mode != X86EMUL_MODE_PROT64 || rpl != cpl))
- || seg == VCPU_SREG_TR)
- && null_selector)
- goto exception;
-
/* TR should be in GDT only */
if (seg == VCPU_SREG_TR && (selector & (1 << 2)))
goto exception;

- if (null_selector) /* for NULL selector skip all following checks */
+ /* NULL selector is not valid for TR, CS and (except for long mode) SS */
+ if (null_selector) {
+ if (seg == VCPU_SREG_CS || seg == VCPU_SREG_TR)
+ goto exception;
+
+ if (seg == VCPU_SREG_SS) {
+ if (ctxt->mode != X86EMUL_MODE_PROT64 || rpl != cpl)
+ goto exception;
+
+ /*
+ * ctxt->ops->set_segment expects the CPL to be in
+ * SS.DPL, so fake an expand-up 32-bit data segment.
+ */
+ seg_desc.type = 3;
+ seg_desc.p = 1;
+ seg_desc.s = 1;
+ seg_desc.dpl = cpl;
+ seg_desc.d = 1;
+ seg_desc.g = 1;
+ }
+
+ /* Skip all following checks */
goto load;
+ }

ret = read_segment_descriptor(ctxt, selector, &seg_desc, &desc_addr);
if (ret != X86EMUL_CONTINUE)
@@ -1584,6 +1597,21 @@ static int load_segment_descriptor(struc
u16 selector, int seg)
{
u8 cpl = ctxt->ops->cpl(ctxt);
+
+ /*
+ * None of MOV, POP and LSS can load a NULL selector in CPL=3, but
+ * they can load it at CPL<3 (Intel's manual says only LSS can,
+ * but it's wrong).
+ *
+ * However, the Intel manual says that putting IST=1/DPL=3 in
+ * an interrupt gate will result in SS=3 (the AMD manual instead
+ * says it doesn't), so allow SS=3 in __load_segment_descriptor
+ * and only forbid it here.
+ */
+ if (seg == VCPU_SREG_SS && selector == 3 &&
+ ctxt->mode == X86EMUL_MODE_PROT64)
+ return emulate_exception(ctxt, GP_VECTOR, 0, true);
+
return __load_segment_descriptor(ctxt, selector, seg, cpl, false, NULL);
}