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| author | Andy Honig <ahonig@google.com> | 2014-08-27 14:42:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2014-10-24 13:21:14 +0200 |
| commit | 2febc839133280d5a5e8e1179c94ea674489dae2 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c3f4f0ab1273a88cd7edf639c944ad4212a13c0 /tools/perf/scripts/python/sched-migration.py | |
| parent | 8b3c3104c3f4f706e99365c3e0d2aa61b95f969f (diff) | |
KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit
There's a race condition in the PIT emulation code in KVM. In
__kvm_migrate_pit_timer the pit_timer object is accessed without
synchronization. If the race condition occurs at the wrong time this
can crash the host kernel.
This fixes CVE-2014-3611.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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