KVM: VMX: fix use after free of vmx->loaded_vmcs
authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Fri, 3 Jan 2014 19:00:51 +0000 (17:00 -0200)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:22:33 +0000 (14:22 +0200)
commit 26a865f4aa8e66a6d94958de7656f7f1b03c6c56 upstream.

After free_loaded_vmcs executes, the "loaded_vmcs" structure
is kfreed, and now vmx->loaded_vmcs points to a kfreed area.
Subsequent free_loaded_vmcs then attempts to manipulate
vmx->loaded_vmcs.

Switch the order to avoid the problem.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047892

Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c

index 6128914..59181e6 100644 (file)
@@ -7294,8 +7294,8 @@ static void vmx_free_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
        struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
 
        free_vpid(vmx);
-       free_nested(vmx);
        free_loaded_vmcs(vmx->loaded_vmcs);
+       free_nested(vmx);
        kfree(vmx->guest_msrs);
        kvm_vcpu_uninit(vcpu);
        kmem_cache_free(kvm_vcpu_cache, vmx);