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| author | Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com> | 2015-11-03 18:03:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2015-11-10 12:06:24 +0100 |
| commit | 54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed (patch) | |
| tree | 68f23011f566132ae1dc3351c30227d1f1b85dc0 /drivers/md/linear.c | |
| parent | context_tracking: avoid irq_save/irq_restore on guest entry and exit (diff) | |
| download | linux-54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed.tar.xz linux-54a20552e1eae07aa240fa370a0293e006b5faed.zip | |
KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered
It was found that a guest can DoS a host by triggering an infinite
stream of "alignment check" (#AC) exceptions. This causes the
microcode to enter an infinite loop where the core never receives
another interrupt. The host kernel panics pretty quickly due to the
effects (CVE-2015-5307).
Signed-off-by: Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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