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Message-ID: <YXofzUCGm3N7lfNf@elende.valinor.li>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 05:58:05 +0200
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel: powerpc: KVM guest can trigger host
 crash on Power8

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 10:18:54PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> The Linux kernel for powerpc since v5.2 has a bug which allows a
> malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on
> Power8.
> 
> Only machines using Linux as the hypervisor, aka. KVM, powernv or bare
> metal, are affected by the bug. Machines running PowerVM are not
> affected.
> 
> The bug was introduced in:
> 
>     10d91611f426 ("powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in C")
> 
> Which was first released in v5.2.
> 
> The upstream fix is:
> 
>   cdeb5d7d890e ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make idle_kvm_start_guest() return 0 if it went to guest")
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cdeb5d7d890e14f3b70e8087e745c4a6a7d9f337
> 
> Which will be included in the v5.16 release.
> 
> Note to backporters, the following commits are required:
> 
>   73287caa9210ded6066833195f4335f7f688a46b
>   ("powerpc64/idle: Fix SP offsets when saving GPRs")
> 
>   9b4416c5095c20e110c82ae602c254099b83b72f
>   ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix stack handling in idle_kvm_start_guest()")
> 
>   cdeb5d7d890e14f3b70e8087e745c4a6a7d9f337
>   ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make idle_kvm_start_guest() return 0 if it went to guest")
> 
>   496c5fe25c377ddb7815c4ce8ecfb676f051e9b6
>   ("powerpc/idle: Don't corrupt back chain when going idle")
> 
> 
> I have a test case to trigger the bug, which I can share privately with
> anyone who would like to test the fix.

The issue has been assigned CVE-2021-43056.

Regards,
Salvatore

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