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kvm: x86: use correct privilege level for sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor access
authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 6 Jun 2018 15:38:09 +0000 (17:38 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 07:52:34 +0000 (09:52 +0200)
commit13d1c5b17d127afbd947210c5cdd80eaded5d9f4
treecab19cf9db82aefa8b09a1ac89f18c420dcd2b77
parent018e5191c6e0b046bf0d2942f402627162c6b29a
kvm: x86: use correct privilege level for sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor access

commit 3c9fa24ca7c9c47605672916491f79e8ccacb9e6 upstream.

The functions that were used in the emulation of fxrstor, fxsave, sgdt and
sidt were originally meant for task switching, and as such they did not
check privilege levels.  This is very bad when the same functions are used
in the emulation of unprivileged instructions.  This is CVE-2018-10853.

The obvious fix is to add a new argument to ops->read_std and ops->write_std,
which decides whether the access is a "system" access or should use the
processor's CPL.

Fixes: 129a72a0d3c8 ("KVM: x86: Introduce segmented_write_std", 2017-01-12)
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c