From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Even though we don't share irqs at the moment, we should ensure
regular user processes don't try to allocate system resources.
We check for capability to access IO devices (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) before
we request_irq on behalf of the guest.
Noticed by Avi.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 4a03375..fffdf4f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -191,6 +191,11 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_irq(struct kvm *kvm,
kvm_assigned_dev_interrupt_work_handler);
if (irqchip_in_kernel(kvm)) {
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
+ return -EPERM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (assigned_irq->host_irq)
match->host_irq = assigned_irq->host_irq;
else
--
1.6.0.1
--
