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 16:47:56 +0000 (08:47 -0800)
commitca09be78c8d5d2a4fe38ec97a61b3c7fc3463794
treef42e9907d88f8ee798c6dae1dbc55cdff5ec689c
parent1bea37d63c16c5988d83ac2431c38e0f0a55cf37
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