From 28955b03fac36829831e185e3ec2793f8eb18689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ladi Prosek Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 11:10:22 +0200 Subject: KVM: nVMX: update last_nonleaf_level when initializing nested EPT commit fd19d3b45164466a4adce7cbff448ba9189e1427 upstream. The function updates context->root_level but didn't call update_last_nonleaf_level so the previous and potentially wrong value was used for page walks. For example, a zero value of last_nonleaf_level would allow a potential out-of-bounds access in arch/x86/mmu/paging_tmpl.h's walk_addr_generic function (CVE-2017-12188). Fixes: 155a97a3d7c78b46cef6f1a973c831bc5a4f82bb Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index ea3f8f774208..d29c745f10ad 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -4169,6 +4169,7 @@ void kvm_init_shadow_ept_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool execonly) update_permission_bitmask(vcpu, context, true); update_pkru_bitmask(vcpu, context, true); + update_last_nonleaf_level(vcpu, context); reset_rsvds_bits_mask_ept(vcpu, context, execonly); reset_ept_shadow_zero_bits_mask(vcpu, context, execonly); } -- cgit v1.2.3