compat/gnttab: Prevent infinite loop in compat code c/s 20281:95ea2052b41b, which introduces Grant Table version 2 hypercalls introduces a vulnerability whereby the compat hypercall handler can fall into an infinite loop. If the watchdog is enabled, Xen will die after the timeout. This is a security problem, XSA-24 / CVE-2012-4539. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper Acked-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Ian Jackson diff -r bac883cf805a xen/common/compat/grant_table.c --- a/xen/common/compat/grant_table.c +++ b/xen/common/compat/grant_table.c @@ -318,6 +318,8 @@ int compat_grant_table_op(unsigned int c #undef XLAT_gnttab_get_status_frames_HNDL_frame_list if ( unlikely(__copy_to_guest(cmp_uop, &cmp.get_status, 1)) ) rc = -EFAULT; + else + i = 1; } break; }