From: Andy Honig Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:42:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~1172 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=449a72277a5dc2a12cd114af3be81a56ad10cbd1;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git 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 Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c index 518d864..298781d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c @@ -262,8 +262,10 @@ void __kvm_migrate_pit_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) return; timer = &pit->pit_state.timer; + mutex_lock(&pit->pit_state.lock); if (hrtimer_cancel(timer)) hrtimer_start_expires(timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS); + mutex_unlock(&pit->pit_state.lock); } static void destroy_pit_timer(struct kvm_pit *pit)