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File xsa243-3.patch of Package xen.6121

x86/shadow: correct SH_LINEAR mapping detection in sh_guess_wrmap()

The fix for XSA-243 / CVE-2017-15592 (c/s bf2b4eadcf379) introduced a change
in behaviour for sh_guest_wrmap(), where it had to cope with no shadow linear
mapping being present.

As the name suggests, guest_vtable is a mapping of the guests pagetable, not
Xen's pagetable, meaning that it isn't the pagetable we need to check for the
shadow linear slot in.

The practical upshot is that a shadow HVM vcpu which switches into 4-level
paging mode, with an L4 pagetable that contains a mapping which aliases Xen's
SH_LINEAR_PT_VIRT_START will fool the safety check for whether a SHADOW_LINEAR
mapping is present.  As the check passes (when it should have failed), Xen
subsequently falls over the missing mapping with a pagefault such as:

(XEN) Pagetable walk from ffff8140a0503880:
    (XEN)  L4[0x102] = 000000046c218063 ffffffffffffffff
    (XEN)  L3[0x102] = 000000046c218063 ffffffffffffffff
    (XEN)  L2[0x102] = 000000046c218063 ffffffffffffffff
    (XEN)  L1[0x103] = 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff

This is part of XSA-243.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>

Index: xen-4.4.4-testing/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/multi.c
===================================================================
--- xen-4.4.4-testing.orig/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/multi.c
+++ xen-4.4.4-testing/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/multi.c
@@ -4278,11 +4278,18 @@ static int sh_guess_wrmap(struct vcpu *v
 
     /* Carefully look in the shadow linear map for the l1e we expect */
 #if SHADOW_PAGING_LEVELS >= 4
-    /* Is a shadow linear map is installed in the first place? */
-    sl4p  = v->arch.paging.shadow.guest_vtable;
-    sl4p += shadow_l4_table_offset(SH_LINEAR_PT_VIRT_START);
-    if ( !(shadow_l4e_get_flags(*sl4p) & _PAGE_PRESENT) )
-        return 0;
+    /*
+     * Non-external guests (i.e. PV) have a SHADOW_LINEAR mapping from the
+     * moment their shadows are created.  External guests (i.e. HVM) may not,
+     * but always have a regular linear mapping, which we can use to observe
+     * whether a SHADOW_LINEAR mapping is present.
+     */
+    if ( paging_mode_external(v->domain) )
+    {
+        sl4p =  __linear_l4_table + l4_linear_offset(SH_LINEAR_PT_VIRT_START);
+        if ( !(shadow_l4e_get_flags(*sl4p) & _PAGE_PRESENT) )
+            return 0;
+    }
     sl4p = sh_linear_l4_table(v) + shadow_l4_linear_offset(vaddr);
     if ( !(shadow_l4e_get_flags(*sl4p) & _PAGE_PRESENT) )
         return 0;

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