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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make default invocation of block drivers safer


From: Anthony Liguori
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make default invocation of block drivers safer (v3)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:25:00 -0500
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On 07/27/2010 12:43 PM, Anthony PERARD wrote:
Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 07/27/2010 12:01 PM, Anthony PERARD wrote:
Anthony Liguori wrote:
CVE-2008-2004 described a vulnerability in QEMU whereas a malicious user could trick the block probing code into accessing arbitrary files in a guest. To mitigate this, we added an explicit format parameter to -drive which disabling
block probing.

Fast forward to today, and the vast majority of users do not use this parameter.
libvirt does not use this by default nor does virt-manager.

Most users want block probing so we should try to make it safer.

This patch adds some logic to the raw device which attempts to detect a write operation to the beginning of a raw device. If the first 4 bytes happen to match an image file that has a backing file that we support, it scrubs the signature to all zeros. If a user specifies an explicit format parameter, this
behavior is disabled.

I contend that while a legitimate guest could write such a signature to the header, we would behave incorrectly anyway upon the next invocation of QEMU.
This simply changes the incorrect behavior to not involve a security
vulnerability.

I've tested this pretty extensively both in the positive and negative case. I'm not 100% confident in the block layer's ability to deal with zero sized writes particularly with respect to the aio functions so some additional eyes would be
appreciated.

Even in the case of a single sector write, we have to make sure to invoked the completion from a bottom half so just removing the zero sized write is not an
option.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
---
v2 -> v3
- add an assert to ensure the first iovec element is at least 512 bytes
v1 -> v2
 - be more paranoid about empty iovecs
---
 block.c     |    4 ++
block/raw.c | 130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 block_int.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

 static BlockDriverAIOCB *raw_aio_writev(BlockDriverState *bs,
     int64_t sector_num, QEMUIOVector *qiov, int nb_sectors,
     BlockDriverCompletionFunc *cb, void *opaque)
 {
+    const uint8_t *first_buf;
+    int first_buf_index = 0, i;
+
+    /* This is probably being paranoid, but handle cases of zero size
+       vectors. */
+    for (i = 0; i < qiov->niov; i++) {
+        if (qiov->iov[i].iov_len) {
+            assert(qiov->iov[i].iov_len >= 512);
+            first_buf_index = i;
+            break;
+        }
+    }
Hi,

I have try to do an installation of Windows XP SP2, with qemu fd2f659,
and the Assertion failed when windows begin to format the disk.

The command line and the error message:
$ i386-softmmu/qemu -hda vm.img -cdrom winxpsp2.iso -boot dc
qemu: qemu/block/raw.c:130: raw_aio_writev: Assertion `qiov->iov[i].iov_len >= 512' failed.

And here, a little more information about the iov:
(gdb) p *qiov
$2 = {iov = 0x9106010, niov = 2, nalloc = 2, size = 512}
(gdb) p qiov->iov[0]
$3 = {iov_base = 0xaff3ce90, iov_len = 368}
(gdb) p qiov->iov[1]
$4 = {iov_base = 0xaff3f000, iov_len = 144}

How can a single sector request be split between two iovs in QEMU? Are you carrying any patches in the version of QEMU that you're testing? Is this qemu-dm?

Nop, I don't have any patch for this test. Is not qemu-dm.

To be clear, this is a discontiguous request. I'm looking at the core now in core.c and I don't see how an IDE disk can generate a request that looks like this.

Can you provide a full stack trace?

#0  0xb77dd424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7418640 in raise () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb741a018 in abort () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3  0xb74115be in __assert_fail () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#4 0x08074d30 in raw_aio_writev (bs=0xa5bcec0, sector_num=63, qiov=0xa67cf14, nb_sectors=1, cb=0x81ae8c0 <dma_bdrv_cb>,
    opaque=0xa67cee0) at /tmp/qemu-merge/block/raw.c:130
#5 0x0806d024 in bdrv_aio_writev (bs=0xa5bcec0, sector_num=63, qiov=0xa67cf14, nb_sectors=1, cb=0x81ae8c0 <dma_bdrv_cb>,
    opaque=0xa67cee0) at /tmp/qemu-merge/block.c:2004
#6 0x081aea78 in dma_bdrv_cb (opaque=0xa67cee0, ret=0) at /tmp/qemu-merge/dma-helpers.c:120 #7 0x081aebc9 in dma_bdrv_io (bs=0xa5bcec0, sg=0xa61bd48, sector_num=63, cb=0x81a9380 <ide_write_dma_cb>, opaque=0xa61c684,
    is_write=1) at /tmp/qemu-merge/dma-helpers.c:163
#8 0x081a9484 in ide_write_dma_cb (opaque=0xa61c684, ret=0) at /tmp/qemu-merge/hw/ide/core.c:748 #9 0x081a9eba in bmdma_cmd_writeb (opaque=0xa61c684, addr=49152, val=1) at /tmp/qemu-merge/hw/ide/pci.c:51 #10 0x080a6b7b in cpu_outb (addr=6, val=<value optimized out>) at /tmp/qemu-merge/ioport.c:80
#11 0xb5c95609 in ?? ()
#12 0x0000c000 in ?? ()
#13 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#14 0xff0a0000 in ?? ()
#15 0xbfa41448 in ?? ()
#16 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Thanks.  I see the problem.  Working on a patch now.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Regards,





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