KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit
authorAndy Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:42:54 +0000 (14:42 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:59:55 +0000 (08:59 -0800)
commit449a72277a5dc2a12cd114af3be81a56ad10cbd1
treeabfc4b0c71c4d77e446ad335c1acb538529260f2
parentfb07a1411e604987d1ca415d33aa16c1a22702bc
KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit

commit 2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2 upstream.

There's a race condition in the PIT emulation code in KVM.  In
__kvm_migrate_pit_timer the pit_timer object is accessed without
synchronization.  If the race condition occurs at the wrong time this
can crash the host kernel.

This fixes CVE-2014-3611.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c