File 5b72fbbe-ARM-disable-grant-table-v2.patch of Package xen

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File 5b72fbbe-ARM-disable-grant-table-v2.patch of Package xen (Revision d4ed2f73a6e64effdf8aff477ac86e8b)

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# Commit 9a5c16a3e75778c8a094ca87784d93b74676f46c
# Date 2018-08-14 16:56:46 +0100
# Author Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
# Committer Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
ARM: disable grant table v2

It was never expected to work, the implementation is incomplete.

As a side effect, it also prevents guests from triggering a
"BUG_ON(page_get_owner(pg) != d)" in gnttab_unpopulate_status_frames().

This is XSA-268.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

--- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
+++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
@@ -936,6 +936,8 @@ version are 1 and 2.
 use of grant table v2 without transitive grants is an ABI breakage from the
 guests point of view.
 
+The usage of gnttab v2 is not security supported on ARM platforms.
+
 ### gnttab\_max\_frames
 > `= <integer>`
 
--- a/xen/common/grant_table.c
+++ b/xen/common/grant_table.c
@@ -97,7 +97,11 @@ static unsigned int __read_mostly max_ma
                                                DEFAULT_MAX_MAPTRACK_FRAMES;
 integer_runtime_param("gnttab_max_maptrack_frames", max_maptrack_frames);
 
-static unsigned int __read_mostly opt_gnttab_max_version = 2;
+#ifndef GNTTAB_MAX_VERSION
+#define GNTTAB_MAX_VERSION 2
+#endif
+
+static unsigned int __read_mostly opt_gnttab_max_version = GNTTAB_MAX_VERSION;
 static bool __read_mostly opt_transitive_grants = true;
 
 static int __init parse_gnttab(const char *s)
--- a/xen/include/asm-arm/grant_table.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/grant_table.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <xen/sched.h>
 
 #define INITIAL_NR_GRANT_FRAMES 1U
+#define GNTTAB_MAX_VERSION 1
 
 struct grant_table_arch {
     gfn_t *shared_gfn;

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