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authorMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>2019-11-14 13:17:39 +0000
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-11-15 10:14:04 +0100
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KVM: Add a comment describing the /dev/kvm no_compat handling
Add a comment explaining the rational behind having both no_compat open and ioctl callbacks to fend off compat tasks. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 6a65ed915c7a..13efc291b1c7 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -122,6 +122,13 @@ static long kvm_vcpu_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int ioctl,
unsigned long arg);
#define KVM_COMPAT(c) .compat_ioctl = (c)
#else
+/*
+ * For architectures that don't implement a compat infrastructure,
+ * adopt a double line of defense:
+ * - Prevent a compat task from opening /dev/kvm
+ * - If the open has been done by a 64bit task, and the KVM fd
+ * passed to a compat task, let the ioctls fail.
+ */
static long kvm_no_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int ioctl,
unsigned long arg) { return -EINVAL; }