[PATCH 0/2] Fix QEMU crashes when passing IGD to a guest VM under XEN

[Grzegorz Uriasz <gorbak25@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

This patch series is a small subset of a bigger patch set spanning few projects 
aiming to isolate the GPU
in QUBES OS to a dedicated security domain. I'm doing this together with 3 
colleagues as part of our Bachelors thesis.

When passing an Intel Graphic Device to a HVM guest under XEN, QEMU sometimes 
crashes
when starting the VM. It turns out that the code responsible for setting up
the legacy VBIOS for the IGD contains a bug which results in a memcpy of an 
undefined size
between the QEMU heap and the physical memory of the guest.

If the size of the memcpy is small enough qemu does not crash - this means that 
this
bug is actually a small security issue - a hostile guest kernel might determine 
the memory layout of
QEMU simply by looking at physical memory beyond 0xdffff - this defeats ASLR 
and might make exploitation
easier if other issues were to be found.

The problem is the current mechanism for obtaining a copy of the ROM of the IGD.
We first allocate a buffer which holds the vbios - the size of which is 
obtained from sysfs.
We then try to read the rom from sysfs, if we fail then we just return without 
setting the size of the buffer.
This would be ok if the size of the ROM reported by sysfs would be 0, but the 
size is always 32 pages as this corresponds
to legacy memory ranges. It turns out that reading the ROM fails on every 
single device I've tested(spanning few
generations of IGD), which means qemu never sets the size of the buffer and 
returns a valid pointer to code which
basically does a memcpy of an undefined size.

I'm including two patches.
The first one fixes the security issue by making failing to read the ROM from 
sysfs fatal.
The second patch introduces a better method for obtaining the VBIOS. I've 
haven't yet seen a single device on which
the old code was working, the new code basically creates a shadow copy directly 
by reading from /dev/mem - this
should be fine as a quick grep of the codebase shows that this approach is 
already being used to handle MSI.
I've tested the new code on few different laptops and it works fine and the 
guest VMS finally stopped complaining that
the VBIOS tables are missing.

Grzegorz Uriasz (2):
  Fix undefined behaviour
  Improve legacy vbios handling

 hw/xen/xen_pt.c          |  8 +++++--
 hw/xen/xen_pt_graphics.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 hw/xen/xen_pt_load_rom.c | 13 +++++------
 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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