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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload &gt; XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX.</title>
<updated>2012-01-26T00:13:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Campbell</name>
<email>Ian.Campbell@citrix.com</email>
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<published>2012-01-04T09:34:49+00:00</published>
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commit 9e7860cee18241633eddb36a4c34c7b61d8cecbc upstream.

Haogang Chen found out that:

 There is a potential integer overflow in process_msg() that could result
 in cross-domain attack.

 	body = kmalloc(msg-&gt;hdr.len + 1, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH);

 When a malicious guest passes 0xffffffff in msg-&gt;hdr.len, the subsequent
 call to xb_read() would write to a zero-length buffer.

 The other end of this connection is always the xenstore backend daemon
 so there is no guest (malicious or otherwise) which can do this. The
 xenstore daemon is a trusted component in the system.

 However this seem like a reasonable robustness improvement so we should
 have it.

And Ian when read the API docs found that:
        The payload length (len field of the header) is limited to 4096
        (XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX) in both directions.  If a client exceeds the
        limit, its xenstored connection will be immediately killed by
        xenstored, which is usually catastrophic from the client's point of
        view.  Clients (particularly domains, which cannot just reconnect)
        should avoid this.

so this patch checks against that instead.

This also avoids a potential integer overflow pointed out by Haogang Chen.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Haogang Chen &lt;haogangchen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 9e7860cee18241633eddb36a4c34c7b61d8cecbc upstream.

Haogang Chen found out that:

 There is a potential integer overflow in process_msg() that could result
 in cross-domain attack.

 	body = kmalloc(msg-&gt;hdr.len + 1, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH);

 When a malicious guest passes 0xffffffff in msg-&gt;hdr.len, the subsequent
 call to xb_read() would write to a zero-length buffer.

 The other end of this connection is always the xenstore backend daemon
 so there is no guest (malicious or otherwise) which can do this. The
 xenstore daemon is a trusted component in the system.

 However this seem like a reasonable robustness improvement so we should
 have it.

And Ian when read the API docs found that:
        The payload length (len field of the header) is limited to 4096
        (XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX) in both directions.  If a client exceeds the
        limit, its xenstored connection will be immediately killed by
        xenstored, which is usually catastrophic from the client's point of
        view.  Clients (particularly domains, which cannot just reconnect)
        should avoid this.

so this patch checks against that instead.

This also avoids a potential integer overflow pointed out by Haogang Chen.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Haogang Chen &lt;haogangchen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>Revert "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add xs_reset_watches to shutdown watches from old kernel"</title>
<updated>2011-12-19T14:30:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-19T14:30:35+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit ddacf5ef684a655abe2bb50c4b2a5b72ae0d5e05.
As when booting the kernel under Amazon EC2 as an HVM guest it ends up
hanging during startup. Reverting this we loose the fix for kexec
booting to the crash kernels.

Fixes Canonical BZ #901305 (http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901305)

Tested-by: Alessandro Salvatori &lt;sandr8@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by:  Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;Ian.Campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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This reverts commit ddacf5ef684a655abe2bb50c4b2a5b72ae0d5e05.
As when booting the kernel under Amazon EC2 as an HVM guest it ends up
hanging during startup. Reverting this we loose the fix for kexec
booting to the crash kernels.

Fixes Canonical BZ #901305 (http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901305)

Tested-by: Alessandro Salvatori &lt;sandr8@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by:  Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;Ian.Campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add xs_reset_watches to shutdown watches from old kernel</title>
<updated>2011-09-22T20:32:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olaf Hering</name>
<email>olaf@aepfle.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-22T14:14:49+00:00</published>
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Add new xs_reset_watches function to shutdown watches from old kernel after
kexec boot.  The old kernel does not unregister all watches in the
shutdown path.  They are still active, the double registration can not
be detected by the new kernel.  When the watches fire, unexpected events
will arrive and the xenwatch thread will crash (jumps to NULL).  An
orderly reboot of a hvm guest will destroy the entire guest with all its
resources (including the watches) before it is rebuilt from scratch, so
the missing unregister is not an issue in that case.

With this change the xenstored is instructed to wipe all active watches
for the guest.  However, a patch for xenstored is required so that it
accepts the XS_RESET_WATCHES request from a client (see changeset
23839:42a45baf037d in xen-unstable.hg). Without the patch for xenstored
the registration of watches will fail and some features of a PVonHVM
guest are not available. The guest is still able to boot, but repeated
kexec boots will fail.

[v5: use xs_single instead of passing a dummy string to xs_talkv]
[v4: ignore -EEXIST in xs_reset_watches]
[v3: use XS_RESET_WATCHES instead of XS_INTRODUCE]
[v2: move all code which deals with XS_INTRODUCE into xs_introduce()
    (based on feedback from Ian Campbell); remove casts from kvec assignment]
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olaf@aepfle.de&gt;
[v1: Redid the git description a bit]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Add new xs_reset_watches function to shutdown watches from old kernel after
kexec boot.  The old kernel does not unregister all watches in the
shutdown path.  They are still active, the double registration can not
be detected by the new kernel.  When the watches fire, unexpected events
will arrive and the xenwatch thread will crash (jumps to NULL).  An
orderly reboot of a hvm guest will destroy the entire guest with all its
resources (including the watches) before it is rebuilt from scratch, so
the missing unregister is not an issue in that case.

With this change the xenstored is instructed to wipe all active watches
for the guest.  However, a patch for xenstored is required so that it
accepts the XS_RESET_WATCHES request from a client (see changeset
23839:42a45baf037d in xen-unstable.hg). Without the patch for xenstored
the registration of watches will fail and some features of a PVonHVM
guest are not available. The guest is still able to boot, but repeated
kexec boots will fail.

[v5: use xs_single instead of passing a dummy string to xs_talkv]
[v4: ignore -EEXIST in xs_reset_watches]
[v3: use XS_RESET_WATCHES instead of XS_INTRODUCE]
[v2: move all code which deals with XS_INTRODUCE into xs_introduce()
    (based on feedback from Ian Campbell); remove casts from kvec assignment]
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olaf@aepfle.de&gt;
[v1: Redid the git description a bit]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: update xs_wire.h:xsd_sockmsg_type from xen-unstable</title>
<updated>2011-09-22T20:32:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olaf Hering</name>
<email>olaf@aepfle.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-22T14:14:48+00:00</published>
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Update include/xen/interface/io/xs_wire.h from xen-unstable.
Now entries in xsd_sockmsg_type were added.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olaf@aepfle.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Update include/xen/interface/io/xs_wire.h from xen-unstable.
Now entries in xsd_sockmsg_type were added.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering &lt;olaf@aepfle.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen: Add Xen interface header files</title>
<updated>2007-07-18T15:47:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Fitzhardinge</name>
<email>jeremy@xensource.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-18T01:37:04+00:00</published>
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Add Xen interface header files. These are taken fairly directly from
the Xen tree, but somewhat rearranged to suit the kernel's conventions.

Define macros and inline functions for doing hypercalls into the
hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt &lt;ian.pratt@xensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach &lt;Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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Add Xen interface header files. These are taken fairly directly from
the Xen tree, but somewhat rearranged to suit the kernel's conventions.

Define macros and inline functions for doing hypercalls into the
hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt &lt;ian.pratt@xensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach &lt;Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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