Xen devel - Jan 2008 - [XSM] Potential security vulnerability and inconsistency in evtchn_close and evtchn_reset

Hi All,

I found that evtchn_close() is not checked for authorization by xsm hooks in
some cases.

There is xsm permission check before __evtchn_close() in evtchn_reset() as shown
below:
785 static long evtchn_reset(evtchn_reset_t *r)
786 {
...
803     rc = xsm_evtchn_reset(current->domain, d);
804     if ( rc )
805         goto out;
806
807     for ( i = 0; port_is_valid(d, i); i++ )
808         (void)__evtchn_close(d, i);
...
}

However, there is no such xsm permission check before the __evtchn_close()
called by evtchn_close() in do_event_channel_op() as below. I imagine, maybe
there is no need to check if one can close itself, but it is probably still good
to add a xsm hook inside evtchn_close() in case we decide to expand
evtchn_close() to close other domains later. In addition, almost all other
functions such as evtchn_send() and evtchn_status() put their xsm hooks inside
themselves, it is more consistent to add a xsm_evtchn_close() hook in
evtchn_close(). What do you think? Thanks.

818   long do_event_channel_op(int cmd, XEN_GUEST_HANDLE(void) arg) {
...
874     case EVTCHNOP_close: {
875         struct evtchn_close close;
876         if ( copy_from_guest(&close, arg, 1) != 0 )
877             return -EFAULT;
878         rc = evtchn_close(&close);
879         break;
...
}

469 static long evtchn_close(evtchn_close_t *close)
470 {
471     return __evtchn_close(current->domain, close->port);
472 }

Thanks,
Lin

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