Re: [Xen-users] Xen Security Advisory 240 (CVE-2017-15595) - Unlimited recursion in linear pagetable de-typing

[James Dingwall <james-xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 05:13:22PM +0000, Xen.org security team wrote:
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>             Xen Security Advisory CVE-2017-15595 / XSA-240
>                                version 5
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>            Unlimited recursion in linear pagetable de-typing
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> c0c624f51fb1bd9e31a2c120343164d545ab6e709ed4bb9e5dd89b5c4c4e49f8  
> xsa240-4.8/0001-x86-limit-linear-page-table-use-to-a-single-level.patch
> 7e3c2c4a4d0ee0a29abaa7aceffbb774b1f92aa81dfa4c5d1c5c5156b6bb0a3a  
> xsa240-4.8/0002-x86-mm-Disable-PV-linear-pagetables-by-default.patch
> f174ee608a7f7f0601ae46edafbf443c90a87632609c1b4145fb0e2e5c4b1b51  
> xsa240-4.8/0003-x86-dont-wrongly-trigger-linear-page-table-assertion.patch
<snip>

I'm trying to apply patch 0003 to a 4.8.2 branch but it is rejected (patch 
--verbose -p1).  The hunk it is 
trying to remove does not exist in the stable-4.8 branch or at tag 
RELEASE-4.8.2.  Trying to find 
CONFIG_PV_LINEAR_PT in git does not show this in stable-4.8 or stable-4.9 
branches (but it is present in the 
staging branches.)  It looks like the patch issued for 4.6 would apply, is this 
satisfactory for 4.8.2?

Thanks,
James

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