File 5bf41f03-mm-Dont-perform-flush-after-failing-to-update-a-guests-L1e.patch of Package xen.openSUSE_Leap_42.3_Update
Subject: x86/mm: Don't perform flush after failing to update a guests L1e
From: Andrew Cooper andrew.cooper3@citrix.com Tue Nov 20 15:49:39 2018 +0100
Date: Tue Nov 20 15:49:39 2018 +0100:
Git: d819a65bbc3e68f38dde03ade764de9157605008
If the L1e update hasn't occured, the flush cannot do anything useful. This
skips the potentially expensive vcpumask_to_pcpumask() conversion, and
broadcast TLB shootdown.
More importantly however, we might be in the error path due to a bad va
parameter from the guest, and this should not propagate into the TLB flushing
logic. The INVPCID instruction for example raises #GP for a non-canonical
address.
This is XSA-279.
Reported-by: Matthew Daley <mattd@bugfuzz.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 6c8d50288722672ecc8e19b0741a31b521d01706
master date: 2018-11-20 14:58:41 +0100
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
index e06d35138b..6075a3bf01 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
@@ -4894,6 +4894,14 @@ static int __do_update_va_mapping(
if ( pl1e )
guest_unmap_l1e(pl1e);
+ /*
+ * Any error at this point means that we haven't change the l1e. Skip the
+ * flush, as it won't do anything useful. Furthermore, va is guest
+ * controlled and not necesserily audited by this point.
+ */
+ if ( rc )
+ return rc;
+
switch ( flags & UVMF_FLUSHTYPE_MASK )
{
case UVMF_TLB_FLUSH: