x86/PV: check GDT/LDT limits during emulation

Accesses beyond the LDT limit originating from emulation would trigger
the ASSERT() in pv_map_ldt_shadow_page(). On production builds such
accesses would cause an attempt to promote the touched page (offset from
the present LDT base address) to a segment descriptor one. If this
happens to succeed, guest user mode would be able to elevate its
privileges to that of the guest kernel. This is particularly easy when
there's no LDT at all, in which case the LDT base stored internally to
Xen is simply zero.

Also adjust the ASSERT() that was triggering: It was off by one to
begin with, and for production builds we also better use
ASSERT_UNREACHABLE() instead with suitable recovery code afterwards.

This is XSA-298.

Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
master commit: 93021cbe880a8013691a48d0febef8ed7d3e3ebd
master date: 2019-10-31 16:08:16 +0100

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/pv/emul-gate-op.c b/xen/arch/x86/pv/emul-gate-op.c
index 810c4f7d8cdebac6a4c492c573933c8457ca6a6e..17f11e66339be2ae5f1c76bb7c5497891d1d2d40 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/pv/emul-gate-op.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/pv/emul-gate-op.c
@@ -51,7 +51,13 @@ static int read_gate_descriptor(unsigned int gate_sel,
     const struct desc_struct *pdesc = gdt_ldt_desc_ptr(gate_sel);
 
     if ( (gate_sel < 4) ||
-         ((gate_sel >= FIRST_RESERVED_GDT_BYTE) && !(gate_sel & 4)) ||
+         /*
+          * We're interested in call gates only, which occupy a single
+          * seg_desc_t for 32-bit and a consecutive pair of them for 64-bit.
+          */
+         ((gate_sel >> 3) + !is_pv_32bit_vcpu(v) >=
+          (gate_sel & 4 ? v->arch.pv_vcpu.ldt_ents
+                        : v->arch.pv_vcpu.gdt_ents)) ||
          __get_user(desc, pdesc) )
         return 0;
 
@@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ static int read_gate_descriptor(unsigned int gate_sel,
     if ( !is_pv_32bit_vcpu(v) )
     {
         if ( (*ar & 0x1f00) != 0x0c00 ||
-             (gate_sel >= FIRST_RESERVED_GDT_BYTE - 8 && !(gate_sel & 4)) ||
+             /* Limit check done above already. */
              __get_user(desc, pdesc + 1) ||
              (desc.b & 0x1f00) )
             return 0;

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/pv/emulate.c b/xen/arch/x86/pv/emulate.c
index 1b609117a3a257637fef126c37702bf01050f346..29ac3c64a1b214fe0739b4525e2563db743035a0 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/pv/emulate.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/pv/emulate.c
@@ -31,7 +31,14 @@ int pv_emul_read_descriptor(unsigned int sel, const struct vcpu *v,
 {
     struct desc_struct desc;
 
-    if ( sel < 4)
+    if ( sel < 4 ||
+         /*
+          * Don't apply the GDT limit here, as the selector may be a Xen
+          * provided one. __get_user() will fail (without taking further
+          * action) for ones falling in the gap between guest populated
+          * and Xen ones.
+          */
+         ((sel & 4) && (sel >> 3) >= v->arch.pv_vcpu.ldt_ents) )
         desc.b = desc.a = 0;
     else if ( __get_user(desc, gdt_ldt_desc_ptr(sel)) )
         return 0;

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/pv/mm.c b/xen/arch/x86/pv/mm.c
index b46fd94c2c97c0be21a65ee3297d4511c3f11d40..80bf280fb20b2001d4bda2132171f7a7cc09b2c2 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/pv/mm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/pv/mm.c
@@ -92,12 +92,16 @@ bool pv_map_ldt_shadow_page(unsigned int offset)
     BUG_ON(unlikely(in_irq()));
 
     /*
-     * Hardware limit checking should guarantee this property.  NB. This is
+     * Prior limit checking should guarantee this property.  NB. This is
      * safe as updates to the LDT can only be made by MMUEXT_SET_LDT to the
      * current vcpu, and vcpu_reset() will block until this vcpu has been
      * descheduled before continuing.
      */
-    ASSERT((offset >> 3) <= curr->arch.pv_vcpu.ldt_ents);
+    if ( unlikely((offset >> 3) >= curr->arch.pv_vcpu.ldt_ents) )
+    {
+        ASSERT_UNREACHABLE();
+        return false;
+    }
 
     if ( is_pv_32bit_domain(currd) )
         linear = (uint32_t)linear;