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compat/gnttab: Prevent infinite loop in compat code stable-4.0 staging-4.0
authorIan Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:46:35 +0000 (11:46 +0000)
committerIan Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:46:35 +0000 (11:46 +0000)
commit2692df2a2c6ca3c09ef6c3d064f36e3630ff9bdc
tree34925de43d75543a6e9b18cc50b45230af2ddf4f
parente201bce9a19d158ee979ed9a6690cfeede925c1f
compat/gnttab: Prevent infinite loop in compat code

c/s 20281:95ea2052b41b, which introduces Grant Table version 2
hypercalls introduces a vulnerability whereby the compat hypercall
handler can fall into an infinite loop.

If the watchdog is enabled, Xen will die after the timeout.

This is a security problem, XSA-24 / CVE-2012-4539.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
xen-unstable changeset: 26151:b64a7d868f06
Backport-requested-by: security@xen.org
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
xen/common/compat/grant_table.c