dfe21e6bc0
WARN and truncate the incoming GPR number/index when reading/writing GPRs
in the emulator to guard against KVM bugs, e.g. to avoid out-of-bounds
accesses to ctxt->_regs[] if KVM generates a bogus index. Truncate the
index instead of returning e.g. zero, as reg_write() returns a pointer
to the register, i.e. returning zero would result in a NULL pointer
dereference. KVM could also force the index to any arbitrary GPR, but
that's no better or worse, just different.
Open code the restriction to 16 registers; RIP is handled via _eip and
should never be accessed through reg_read() or reg_write(). See the
comments above the declarations of reg_read() and reg_write(), and the
behavior of writeback_registers(). The horrific open coded mess will be
cleaned up in a future commit.
There are no such bugs known to exist in the emulator, but determining
that KVM is bug-free is not at all simple and requires a deep dive into
the emulator. The code is so convoluted that GCC-12 with the recently
enable -Warray-bounds spits out a false-positive due to a GCC bug:
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:254:27: warning: array subscript 32 is above array
bounds of 'long unsigned int[17]' [-Warray-bounds]
254 | return ctxt->_regs[nr];
| ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
In file included from arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:23:
arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h: In function 'reg_rmw':
arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h:366:23: note: while referencing '_regs'
366 | unsigned long _regs[NR_VCPU_REGS];
| ^~~~~
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YofQlBrlx18J7h9Y@google.com
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216026
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105679
Reported-and-tested-by: Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220526210817.3428868-3-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.