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File 57d1563d-x86-32on64-don-t-allow-recursive-page-tables-from-L3.patch of Package xen.8005

References: bsc#995785 CVE-2016-7092 XSA-185

# Commit c844d637d92a75854ea5c8d4e5ca34302a9f623c
# Date 2016-09-08 14:14:53 +0200
# Author Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
# Committer Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
x86/32on64: don't allow recursive page tables from L3

L3 entries are special in PAE mode, and hence can't reasonably be used
for setting up recursive (and hence linear) page table mappings. Since
abuse is possible when the guest in fact gets run on 4-level page
tables, this needs to be excluded explicitly.

This is XSA-185 / CVE-2016-7092.

Reported-by: Jérémie Boutoille <jboutoille@ext.quarkslab.com>
Reported-by: "栾尚聪(好风)" <shangcong.lsc@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
@@ -1011,7 +1011,9 @@ get_page_from_l3e(
 
     rc = get_page_and_type_from_pagenr(
         l3e_get_pfn(l3e), PGT_l2_page_table, d, partial, 1);
-    if ( unlikely(rc == -EINVAL) && get_l3_linear_pagetable(l3e, pfn, d) )
+    if ( unlikely(rc == -EINVAL) &&
+         !is_pv_32bit_domain(d) &&
+         get_l3_linear_pagetable(l3e, pfn, d) )
         rc = 0;
 
     return rc;

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