x86/32on64: don't allow recursive page tables from L3

L3 entries are special in PAE mode, and hence can't reasonably be used
for setting up recursive (and hence linear) page table mappings. Since
abuse is possible when the guest in fact gets run on 4-level page
tables, this needs to be excluded explicitly.

This is XSA-185 / CVE-2016-7092.

Reported-by: Jérémie Boutoille <jboutoille@ext.quarkslab.com>
Reported-by: "栾尚聪(好风)" <shangcong.lsc@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
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Jan Beulich committed 2016-09-08 14:14:53 +02:00
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@@ -1124,7 +1124,9 @@ get_page_from_l3e(
rc = get_page_and_type_from_pagenr(
l3e_get_pfn(l3e), PGT_l2_page_table, d, partial, 1);
if ( unlikely(rc == -EINVAL) && get_l3_linear_pagetable(l3e, pfn, d) )
if ( unlikely(rc == -EINVAL) &&
!is_pv_32bit_domain(d) &&
get_l3_linear_pagetable(l3e, pfn, d) )
rc = 0;
return rc;
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