[Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] x86: add address validity check to guest_map_l1e()

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

Just like for guest_get_eff_l1e() this prevents accessing as page
tables (and with the wrong memory attribute) internal data inside Xen
happening to be mapped with 1Gb pages.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/paging.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/paging.h
@@ -360,7 +360,8 @@ guest_map_l1e(struct vcpu *v, unsigned l
         return paging_get_hostmode(v)->guest_map_l1e(v, addr, gl1mfn);
 
     /* Find this l1e and its enclosing l1mfn in the linear map */
-    if ( __copy_from_user(&l2e, 
+    if ( !__addr_ok(addr) ||
+         __copy_from_user(&l2e,
                           &__linear_l2_table[l2_linear_offset(addr)],
                           sizeof(l2_pgentry_t)) != 0 )
         return NULL;

Attachment: x86-guest_map_l1e-check.patch
Description: Text document

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