From: Guillaume Bertholon guillaume.bertholon@ens.fr
The upstream commit 541ab2aeb282 ("KVM: x86: work around leak of uninitialized stack contents") resets `exception` in the function `kvm_write_guest_virt_system`. However, its backported version in stable (commit ba7f1c934f2e ("KVM: x86: work around leak of uninitialized stack contents")) applied the change in `emulator_write_std` instead.
This patch moves the memset instruction back to `kvm_write_guest_virt_system`.
Fixes: ba7f1c934f2e ("KVM: x86: work around leak of uninitialized stack contents") Signed-off-by: Guillaume Bertholon guillaume.bertholon@ens.fr Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -4417,13 +4417,6 @@ static int emulator_write_std(struct x86 if (!system && kvm_x86_ops->get_cpl(vcpu) == 3) access |= PFERR_USER_MASK;
- /* - * FIXME: this should call handle_emulation_failure if X86EMUL_IO_NEEDED - * is returned, but our callers are not ready for that and they blindly - * call kvm_inject_page_fault. Ensure that they at least do not leak - * uninitialized kernel stack memory into cr2 and error code. - */ - memset(exception, 0, sizeof(*exception)); return kvm_write_guest_virt_helper(addr, val, bytes, vcpu, access, exception); } @@ -4431,6 +4424,13 @@ static int emulator_write_std(struct x86 int kvm_write_guest_virt_system(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr, void *val, unsigned int bytes, struct x86_exception *exception) { + /* + * FIXME: this should call handle_emulation_failure if X86EMUL_IO_NEEDED + * is returned, but our callers are not ready for that and they blindly + * call kvm_inject_page_fault. Ensure that they at least do not leak + * uninitialized kernel stack memory into cr2 and error code. + */ + memset(exception, 0, sizeof(*exception)); return kvm_write_guest_virt_helper(addr, val, bytes, vcpu, PFERR_WRITE_MASK, exception); }