References: bsc#995785 CVE-2016-7092 XSA-185 # Commit c844d637d92a75854ea5c8d4e5ca34302a9f623c # Date 2016-09-08 14:14:53 +0200 # Author Jan Beulich # Committer Jan Beulich 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 Reported-by: "栾尚聪(好风)" Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c @@ -1123,7 +1123,9 @@ 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;