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From: Ladi Prosek <lprosek@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 11:10:22 +0200
Subject: KVM: nVMX: update last_nonleaf_level when initializing nested EPT
Patch-mainline: v4.14-rc5
Git-commit: fd19d3b45164466a4adce7cbff448ba9189e1427
References: bsc#1077761

The function updates context->root_level but didn't call
update_last_nonleaf_level so the previous and potentially wrong value
was used for page walks.  For example, a zero value of last_nonleaf_level
would allow a potential out-of-bounds access in arch/x86/mmu/paging_tmpl.h's
walk_addr_generic function (CVE-2017-12188).

Fixes: 155a97a3d7c78b46cef6f1a973c831bc5a4f82bb
Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek <lprosek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -4555,6 +4555,7 @@
 
 	update_permission_bitmask(vcpu, context, true);
 	update_pkru_bitmask(vcpu, context, true);
+	update_last_nonleaf_level(vcpu, context);
 	reset_rsvds_bits_mask_ept(vcpu, context, execonly);
 	reset_ept_shadow_zero_bits_mask(vcpu, context, execonly);
 }