xen: Do not allow guests to enable nested HVM on themselves

There is no reason for this and doing so exposes a memory leak to
guests. Only toolstacks need write access to this HVM param.

This is XSA-35 / CVE-2013-0152.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Committed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
index b5535c0de985efd0d3848d825cdb79cadb7c29ee..d702de4e8664b45e86bb5e87c6c8f11ca6cc1c54 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
@@ -3881,6 +3881,11 @@ long do_hvm_op(unsigned long op, XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_PARAM(void) arg)
                     rc = -EINVAL;
                 break;
             case HVM_PARAM_NESTEDHVM:
+                if ( !IS_PRIV(current->domain) )
+                {
+                    rc = -EPERM;
+                    break;
+                }
                 if ( a.value > 1 )
                     rc = -EINVAL;
                 if ( !is_hvm_domain(d) )