From: Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>
To: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Cc: svt-core@virtuozzo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH hci-8.1 0/3] hw/usb/hcd-xhci: fix guest-triggerable use-after-free (CVE-2026-17588, CVE-2026-111819) #VSTOR-151666
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:13:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21983bd9-fb9d-4de1-889a-48f9f5fe8019@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261026114645.187003-1-den@openvz.org>
Ack
Applied onto hci-dev
On 10/26/26 1:46 PM, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> A guest can crash QEMU through the emulated xHCI controller by pointing
> the event ring, or an MSI-X vector, at the controller's own doorbell
> register. An event posted outside MMIO context, such as a USB transfer
> completion from the main loop, is then written by DMA into doorbell 0
> and runs the command ring re-entrantly. A Disable Slot command planted
> there frees the transfer and endpoint the caller still holds.
>
> VSTOR-151666 is this crash on a production node: qemu-kvm SIGSEGV in
> xhci_ep_free_xfer() <- xhci_complete() <- usb_msd_command_complete().
> In the core, intr[0].er_start equals BAR0 + 0x2000, which is doorbell 0,
> and most crashes of that VM follow the
> "Blocked re-entrant IO on MemoryRegion: doorbell at addr: 0x0" warning
> by a second or two.
>
> Upstream fixed it with these three commits from Thomas Huth:
>
> f91b0544fe engage the re-entrancy guard in the xHCI timer callbacks
> (CVE-2026-17588)
> 89e653b773 restrict xHCI DMA writes to RAM, so events cannot reach
> MMIO at all
> cfa70f3a82 engage the guard in xhci_complete() and the other port
> callbacks (CVE-2026-111819); this is the path that crashed
>
> All three cherry-pick cleanly onto hci-dev with no changes. The only
> local edit is the #VSTOR-151666 tag in the subjects.
>
> Upstream has no test for either CVE. hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c builds, and the
> existing usb-hcd-xhci-test qtest passes. The attack itself has not been
> reproduced.
>
> The same series is needed on hci-8.0, hci-7.4 and hci-7.3 and will be
> sent separately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
>
> Thomas Huth (3):
> hw/usb/hcd-xhci: Set reentrancy guard in timer functions
> (CVE-2026-17588) #VSTOR-151666
> hw/usb/hcd-xhci: Limit DMA transfers to plain memory #VSTOR-151666
> hw/usb/hcd-xhci: More reentrancy guard fixes for the XHCI code
> #VSTOR-151666
>
> hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: f3c1d9ef263edfab8d2a273078493bb766dcf8f8
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-26 11:46 Denis V. Lunev
2026-10-26 11:46 ` [PATCH hci-8.1 1/3] hw/usb/hcd-xhci: Set reentrancy guard in timer functions (CVE-2026-17588) #VSTOR-151666 Denis V. Lunev
2026-10-26 11:51 ` no-reply
2026-10-26 11:46 ` [PATCH hci-8.1 2/3] hw/usb/hcd-xhci: Limit DMA transfers to plain memory #VSTOR-151666 Denis V. Lunev
2026-10-26 11:50 ` no-reply
2026-10-26 11:46 ` [PATCH hci-8.1 3/3] hw/usb/hcd-xhci: More reentrancy guard fixes for the XHCI code #VSTOR-151666 Denis V. Lunev
2026-10-26 11:53 ` no-reply
2026-10-26 16:13 ` Andrey Drobyshev [this message]
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