[Xen-devel] [PATCH 01/11] tmem: only allow tmem control operations from privileged domains

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

This is part of XSA-15 / CVE-2012-3497.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/common/tmem.c
+++ b/xen/common/tmem.c
@@ -2541,10 +2541,8 @@ static NOINLINE int do_tmem_control(stru
     OID *oidp = (OID *)(&op->u.ctrl.oid[0]);
 
     if (!tmh_current_is_privileged())
-    {
-        /* don't fail... mystery: sometimes dom0 fails here */
-        /* return -EPERM; */
-    }
+        return -EPERM;
+
     switch(subop)
     {
     case TMEMC_THAW:




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