linux-hardening - Re: [BUG]: bad usercopy in kvm_stats

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:26:38 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Zheng Zhang <zheng.zhang@...il.ucr.edu>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG]: bad usercopy in kvm_stats_read in mm/usercopy.c

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 09:15:00AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 14:32:09 -0700 Zheng Zhang <zheng.zhang@...il.ucr.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > Kees, Andrew, and  to whom it may concern:
> > > 
> > > Hello! We have found a bug in the Linux kernel version 6.2.0 by syzkaller
> > > with our own templates. It also produces a POC.
> > > Attached is the report, log, and reproducers generated by syzkaller
> > > Please let me know if there is any additional information that I can
> > > provide to help debug this issue.
> > > Thanks!
> > 
> > Let's cc the kvm mailing list.
> > 
> > Original email is at
> > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAC_GQSr3xzZaeZt85k_RCBd5kfiOve8qXo7a81Cq53LuVQ5r=Q@mail.gmail.com
> 
> Yeaaaah.  We failed kernel programming 101.  KVM installs file descriptors to
> let userspace read VM and vCPU stats, but doesn't grab a reference to the VM to
> ensure the VM and its vCPUs are kept alive until the stats fds are closed.  I'll
> send a patch.

Thanks! Another victory for hardened usercopy. :)

-- 
Kees Cook