File CVE-2012-3494-xsa12.patch of Package xen

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File CVE-2012-3494-xsa12.patch of Package xen

xen: prevent a 64 bit guest setting reserved bits in DR7

The upper 32 bits of this register are reserved and should be written as
zero.

This is XSA-12 / CVE-2012-3494

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

diff -r 353bc0801b11 xen/include/asm-x86/debugreg.h
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/debugreg.h	Mon Aug 06 12:28:03 2012 +0100
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/debugreg.h	Wed Aug 15 12:00:21 2012 +0100
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
    We can slow the instruction pipeline for instructions coming via the
    gdt or the ldt if we want to.  I am not sure why this is an advantage */
 
-#define DR_CONTROL_RESERVED_ZERO (0x0000d800ul) /* Reserved, read as zero */
+#define DR_CONTROL_RESERVED_ZERO (~0xffff27fful) /* Reserved, read as zero */
 #define DR_CONTROL_RESERVED_ONE  (0x00000400ul) /* Reserved, read as one */
 #define DR_LOCAL_EXACT_ENABLE    (0x00000100ul) /* Local exact enable */
 #define DR_GLOBAL_EXACT_ENABLE   (0x00000200ul) /* Global exact enable */

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