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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:04:11 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Hardened usercopy whitelisting
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 21/10/2017 00:40, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> This breaks KVM completely on x86, due to two ioctls
>> (KVM_GET/SET_CPUID2) accessing the cpuid_entries field of struct
>> kvm_vcpu_arch.
>>
>> There's also another broken ioctl, KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG, but it is
>> obsolete and not a big deal at all.
>>
>> I can post some patches, but probably not until the beginning of
>> November due to travelling. Please do not send this too close to the
>> beginning of the merge window.
>
> Sleeping is overrated, sending patches now...
Oh awesome, thank you very much for tracking this down and building fixes!
I'll insert these into the usercopy whitelisting series, and see if I
can find any similar cases.
Thanks!
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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