CVE-2015-2150 (published 2015-03-12T14:59Z)

Xen 3.3.x through 4.5.x and the Linux kernel through 3.19.1 do not properly restrict access to PCI command registers, which might allow local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (non-maskable interrupt and host crash) by disabling the (1) memory or (2) I/O decoding for a PCI Express device and then accessing the device, which triggers an Unsupported Request (UR) response.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-264
cwe_name: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
description: Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Jan Beulich
author_date: 2015-03-11 13:51:17+00:00
msg: xen-pciback: limit guest control of command register

Otherwise the guest can abuse that control to cause e.g. PCIe
Unsupported Request responses by disabling memory and/or I/O decoding
and subsequently causing (CPU side) accesses to the respective address
ranges, which (depending on system configuration) may be fatal to the
host.

Note that to alter any of the bits collected together as
PCI_COMMAND_GUEST permissive mode is now required to be enabled
globally or on the specific device.

This is CVE-2015-2150 / XSA-120.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: conf_space.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #include "conf_space.h"
 #include "conf_space_quirks.h"
 
-static bool permissive;
+bool permissive;
 module_param(permissive, bool, 0644);
 
 /* This is where xen_pcibk_read_config_byte, xen_pcibk_read_config_word,

programming_language: C
filename: conf_space.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ struct config_field_entry {
 	void *data;
 };
 
+extern bool permissive;
+
 #define OFFSET(cfg_entry) ((cfg_entry)->base_offset+(cfg_entry)->field->offset)
 
 /* Add fields to a device - the add_fields macro expects to get a pointer to

programming_language: C
filename: conf_space_header.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
 #include "pciback.h"
 #include "conf_space.h"
 
+struct pci_cmd_info {
+	u16 val;
+};
+
 struct pci_bar_info {
 	u32 val;
 	u32 len_val;
@@ -20,22 +24,36 @@ struct pci_bar_info {
 #define is_enable_cmd(value) ((value)&(PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY|PCI_COMMAND_IO))
 #define is_master_cmd(value) ((value)&PCI_COMMAND_MASTER)
 
-static int command_read(struct pci_dev *dev, int offset, u16 *value, void *data)
+/* Bits guests are allowed to control in permissive mode. */
+#define PCI_COMMAND_GUEST (PCI_COMMAND_MASTER|PCI_COMMAND_SPECIAL| \
+			   PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE|PCI_COMMAND_VGA_PALETTE| \
+			   PCI_COMMAND_WAIT|PCI_COMMAND_FAST_BACK)
+
+static void *command_init(struct pci_dev *dev, int offset)
 {
-	int i;
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = xen_pcibk_read_config_word(dev, offset, value, data);
-	if (!pci_is_enabled(dev))
-		return ret;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < PCI_ROM_RESOURCE; i++) {
-		if (dev->resource[i].flags & IORESOURCE_IO)
-			*value |= PCI_COMMAND_IO;
-		if (dev->resource[i].flags & IORESOURCE_MEM)
-			*value |= PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY;
+	struct pci_cmd_info *cmd = kmalloc(sizeof(*cmd), GFP_KERNEL);
+	int err;
+
+	if (!cmd)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	err = pci_read_config_word(dev, PCI_COMMAND, &cmd->val);
+	if (err) {
+		kfree(cmd);
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}
 
+	return cmd;
+}
+
+static int command_read(struct pci_dev *dev, int offset, u16 *value, void *data)
+{
+	int ret = pci_read_config_word(dev, offset, value);
+	const struct pci_cmd_info *cmd = data;
+
+	*value &= PCI_COMMAND_GUEST;
+	*value |= cmd->val & ~PCI_COMMAND_GUEST;
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -43,6 +61,8 @@ static int command_write(struct pci_dev *dev, int offset, u16 value, void *data)
 {
 	struct xen_pcibk_dev_data *dev_data;
 	int err;
+	u16 val;
+	struct pci_cmd_info *cmd = data;
 
 	dev_data = pci_get_drvdata(dev);
 	if (!pci_is_enabled(dev) && is_enable_cmd(value)) {
@@ -83,6 +103,19 @@ static int command_write(struct pci_dev *dev, int offset, u16 value, void *data)
 		}
 	}
 
+	cmd->val = value;
+
+	if (!permissive && (!dev_data || !dev_data->permissive))
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Only allow the guest to control certain bits. */
+	err = pci_read_config_word(dev, offset, &val);
+	if (err || val == value)
+		return err;
+
+	value &= PCI_COMMAND_GUEST;
+	value |= val & ~PCI_COMMAND_GUEST;
+
 	return pci_write_config_word(dev, offset, value);
 }
 
@@ -282,6 +315,8 @@ static const struct config_field header_common[] = {
 	{
 	 .offset    = PCI_COMMAND,
 	 .size      = 2,
+	 .init      = command_init,
+	 .release   = bar_release,
 	 .u.w.read  = command_read,
 	 .u.w.write = command_write,
 	},

programming_language: C