linux-uconsole/drivers/xen
Ian Campbell 9919fe804d xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX.
commit 9e7860cee1 upstream.

Haogang Chen found out that:

 There is a potential integer overflow in process_msg() that could result
 in cross-domain attack.

 	body = kmalloc(msg->hdr.len + 1, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH);

 When a malicious guest passes 0xffffffff in msg->hdr.len, the subsequent
 call to xb_read() would write to a zero-length buffer.

 The other end of this connection is always the xenstore backend daemon
 so there is no guest (malicious or otherwise) which can do this. The
 xenstore daemon is a trusted component in the system.

 However this seem like a reasonable robustness improvement so we should
 have it.

And Ian when read the API docs found that:
        The payload length (len field of the header) is limited to 4096
        (XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX) in both directions.  If a client exceeds the
        limit, its xenstored connection will be immediately killed by
        xenstored, which is usually catastrophic from the client's point of
        view.  Clients (particularly domains, which cannot just reconnect)
        should avoid this.

so this patch checks against that instead.

This also avoids a potential integer overflow pointed out by Haogang Chen.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Haogang Chen <haogangchen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-25 17:24:41 -08:00
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xenbus xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX. 2012-01-25 17:24:41 -08:00
xenfs Merge branch 'xen/xenbus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen 2011-01-20 16:37:28 -08:00
balloon.c xen/balloon: Move dec_totalhigh_pages() from __balloon_append() to balloon_append() 2011-03-30 11:54:51 -04:00
biomerge.c xen: define BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE() 2010-10-18 10:40:28 -04:00
cpu_hotplug.c Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2009-12-11 12:18:16 -08:00
events.c genirq: Add IRQF_RESUME_EARLY and resume such IRQs earlier 2011-11-11 09:35:54 -08:00
evtchn.c treewide: remove extra semicolons 2011-04-10 17:01:05 +02:00
features.c
gntalloc.c xen-gntalloc: signedness bug in add_grefs() 2011-11-21 14:31:24 -08:00
gntdev.c Merge branches 'stable/backend.base.v3' and 'stable/gntalloc.v7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen 2011-05-19 16:14:25 -07:00
grant-table.c xen/p2m/m2p/gnttab: Support GNTMAP_host_map in the M2P override. 2011-04-18 11:10:27 -04:00
Kconfig xen: change xen/[gntdev/gntalloc] to default m 2011-02-16 09:30:02 -05:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem 2011-05-26 10:50:56 -07:00
manage.c PM: Remove sysdev suspend, resume and shutdown operations 2011-05-11 21:37:15 +02:00
pci.c xen: register xen pci notifier 2010-10-27 18:56:07 +01:00
platform-pci.c xen: no need to delay xen_setup_shutdown_event for hvm guests anymore 2011-02-25 16:43:03 +00:00
swiotlb-xen.c xen/swiotlb: Use page alignment for early buffer allocation. 2012-01-06 14:14:11 -08:00
sys-hypervisor.c drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor: Cleanup code/data sections definitions 2011-05-19 11:30:41 -04:00
tmem.c xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory 2011-05-26 10:02:21 -06:00
xen-balloon.c xen-balloon: Move core balloon functionality out of module 2011-03-16 10:05:34 -04:00
xencomm.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00