oss-security - CVE-2021-4095: kernel: KVM: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_dirty_ring_get() in virt/kvm/dirty

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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 23:26:10 +0800
From: butt3rflyh4ck <butterflyhuangxx@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2021-4095: kernel: KVM: NULL pointer dereference
 in kvm_dirty_ring_get() in virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c

Hi, there was a null-ptr-deref bug in kvm_dirty_ring_get in
virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c and I reproduced it on 5.15.0-rc5+.

#Root Cause
When dirty ring logging is enabled, any dirty logging without an active
vCPU context will cause a kernel oops via a KVM KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR ioctl.

we can call KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR ioctl and it would invoke
kvm_xen_hvm_set_attr(), it would call mark_page_dirty_in_slot().
Call chains is like this:
KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR ioctl
  --->kvm_xen_hvm_set_attr
      --->kvm_write_wall_clock
         --->kvm_write_guest
            -->__kvm_write_guest_page
               --->mark_page_dirty_in_slot
mark_page_dirty_in_slot().
if kvm->dirty_ring_size is sat.
```
void mark_page_dirty_in_slot(struct kvm *kvm,
     struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
     gfn_t gfn)
{
if (memslot && kvm_slot_dirty_track_enabled(memslot)) {
unsigned long rel_gfn = gfn - memslot->base_gfn;
u32 slot = (memslot->as_id << 16) | memslot->id;

if (kvm->dirty_ring_size)
kvm_dirty_ring_push(kvm_dirty_ring_get(kvm),
    slot, rel_gfn);
else
set_bit_le(rel_gfn, memslot->dirty_bitmap);
}
}
```
mark_page_dirty_in_slot() would call kvm_dirty_ring_push() to push a
dirty-page to dirty ring
then kvm_dirty_ring_get() would get vcpu->dirty_ring.

kvm_dirty_ring_get()
```
struct kvm_dirty_ring *kvm_dirty_ring_get(struct kvm *kvm)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kvm_get_running_vcpu();  //-------> invoke
kvm_get_running_vcpu() to get a vcpu.

WARN_ON_ONCE(vcpu->kvm != kvm); [1]

return &vcpu->dirty_ring;
}
```
If vCPU stat did not work, kvm_get_running_vcpu() would get a NULL
vcpu pointer .

#Details
Analyze and some discussion on this issue.
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/CAFcO6XOmoS7EacN_n6v4Txk7xL7iqRa2gABg3F7E3Naf5uG94g@mail.gmail.com/

#Fix
The patch for this issue, not available upstream now.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/kvm/patch/20211121125451.9489-12-dwmw2@infradead.org/

#CVE
Red Hat has assigned CVE-2021-4095 to this issue.
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4095
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2031194

#Cedit
Active Defense Lab of Venustech.

Regards,
 butt3rflyh4ck.
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