[PATCH 3.4 01/12] KVM: x86: Convert vapic synchronization to _cached functions (CVE-2013-6368)

2014-01-25 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Andy Honig commit fda4e2e85589191b123d31cdc21fd33ee70f50fd upstream. In kvm_lapic_sync_from_vapic and kvm_lapic_sync_to_vapic there is the potential to corrupt kernel memory if userspace

[PATCH 3.4 01/12] KVM: x86: Convert vapic synchronization to _cached functions (CVE-2013-6368)

2014-01-25 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Andy Honig aho...@google.com commit fda4e2e85589191b123d31cdc21fd33ee70f50fd upstream. In kvm_lapic_sync_from_vapic and kvm_lapic_sync_to_vapic there is the potential to corrupt kernel memory