From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Prevent the guest's loading of a corrupt cr3 (pointing at no guest phsyical page) from crashing the host.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -463,7 +463,19 @@ void set_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsi vcpu->cr3 = cr3; spin_lock(&vcpu->kvm->lock); - vcpu->mmu.new_cr3(vcpu); + /* + * Does the new cr3 value map to physical memory? (Note, we + * catch an invalid cr3 even in real-mode, because it would + * cause trouble later on when we turn on paging anyway.) + * + * A real CPU would silently accept an invalid cr3 and would + * attempt to use it - with largely undefined (and often hard + * to debug) behavior on the guest side. + */ + if (unlikely(!gfn_to_memslot(vcpu->kvm, cr3 >> PAGE_SHIFT))) + inject_gp(vcpu); + else + vcpu->mmu.new_cr3(vcpu); spin_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->lock); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_cr3); ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel