From: Jan Beulich Subject: gnttab: deal with status frame mapping race Once gnttab_map_frame() drops the grant table lock, the MFN it reports back to its caller is free to other manipulation. In particular gnttab_unpopulate_status_frames() might free it, by a racing request on another CPU, thus resulting in a reference to a deallocated page getting added to a domain's P2M. Obtain a page reference in gnttab_map_frame() to prevent freeing of the page until xenmem_add_to_physmap_one() has actually completed its acting on the page. Do so uniformly, even if only strictly required for v2 status pages, to avoid extra conditionals (which then would all need to be kept in sync going forward). This is CVE-2021-28701 / XSA-384. Reported-by: Julien Grall Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Julien Grall --- v2: Pull get_page() earlier and fold if()s. --- a/xen/arch/arm/mm.c +++ b/xen/arch/arm/mm.c @@ -1420,6 +1420,8 @@ int xenmem_add_to_physmap_one( if ( rc ) return rc; + /* Need to take care of the reference obtained in gnttab_map_frame(). */ + page = mfn_to_page(mfn); t = p2m_ram_rw; break; @@ -1487,9 +1489,12 @@ int xenmem_add_to_physmap_one( /* Map at new location. */ rc = guest_physmap_add_entry(d, gfn, mfn, 0, t); - /* If we fail to add the mapping, we need to drop the reference we - * took earlier on foreign pages */ - if ( rc && space == XENMAPSPACE_gmfn_foreign ) + /* + * For XENMAPSPACE_gmfn_foreign if we failed to add the mapping, we need + * to drop the reference we took earlier. In all other cases we need to + * drop any reference we took earlier (perhaps indirectly). + */ + if ( space == XENMAPSPACE_gmfn_foreign ? rc : page != NULL ) { ASSERT(page != NULL); put_page(page); --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c @@ -2726,6 +2726,8 @@ int xenmem_add_to_physmap_one( rc = gnttab_map_frame(d, idx, gpfn, &mfn); if ( rc ) return rc; + /* Need to take care of the reference obtained in gnttab_map_frame(). */ + page = mfn_to_page(mfn); break; case XENMAPSPACE_gmfn: --- a/xen/common/grant_table.c +++ b/xen/common/grant_table.c @@ -4097,7 +4097,16 @@ int gnttab_map_frame(struct domain *d, u } if ( !rc ) - gnttab_set_frame_gfn(gt, status, idx, gfn); + { + /* + * Make sure gnttab_unpopulate_status_frames() won't (successfully) + * free the page until our caller has completed its operation. + */ + if ( get_page(mfn_to_page(*mfn), d) ) + gnttab_set_frame_gfn(gt, status, idx, gfn); + else + rc = -EBUSY; + } grant_write_unlock(gt);