kvm: iommu: fix the third parameter of kvm_iommu_put_pages (CVE-2014-3601)

The third parameter of kvm_iommu_put_pages is wrong,
It should be 'gfn - slot->base_gfn'.

By making gfn very large, malicious guest or userspace can cause kvm to
go to this error path, and subsequently to pass a huge value as size.
Alternatively if gfn is small, then pages would be pinned but never
unpinned, causing host memory leak and local DOS.

Passing a reasonable but large value could be the most dangerous case,
because it would unpin a page that should have stayed pinned, and thus
allow the device to DMA into arbitrary memory.  However, this cannot
happen because of the condition that can trigger the error:

- out of memory (where you can't allocate even a single page)
  should not be possible for the attacker to trigger

- when exceeding the iommu's address space, guest pages after gfn
  will also exceed the iommu's address space, and inside
  kvm_iommu_put_pages() the iommu_iova_to_phys() will fail.  The
  page thus would not be unpinned at all.

Reported-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@mellanox.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/virt/kvm/iommu.c b/virt/kvm/iommu.c
index 0df7d4b34dfe..714b94932312 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/iommu.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/iommu.c
@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@ static pfn_t kvm_pin_pages(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, gfn_t gfn,
         return pfn;
 }
 
+static void kvm_unpin_pages(struct kvm *kvm, pfn_t pfn, unsigned long npages)
+{
+        unsigned long i;
+
+        for (i = 0; i < npages; ++i)
+                kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn + i);
+}
+
 int kvm_iommu_map_pages(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
 {
         gfn_t gfn, end_gfn;
@@ -123,6 +131,7 @@ int kvm_iommu_map_pages(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
                 if (r) {
                         printk(KERN_ERR "kvm_iommu_map_address:"
                                "iommu failed to map pfn=%llx\n", pfn);
+                        kvm_unpin_pages(kvm, pfn, page_size);
                         goto unmap_pages;
                 }
 
@@ -134,7 +143,7 @@ int kvm_iommu_map_pages(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
         return 0;
 
 unmap_pages:
-        kvm_iommu_put_pages(kvm, slot->base_gfn, gfn);
+        kvm_iommu_put_pages(kvm, slot->base_gfn, gfn - slot->base_gfn);
         return r;
 }
 
@@ -266,14 +275,6 @@ out_unlock:
         return r;
 }
 
-static void kvm_unpin_pages(struct kvm *kvm, pfn_t pfn, unsigned long npages)
-{
-        unsigned long i;
-
-        for (i = 0; i < npages; ++i)
-                kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn + i);
-}
-
 static void kvm_iommu_put_pages(struct kvm *kvm,
                                 gfn_t base_gfn, unsigned long npages)
 {