From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC] kvm: write protect memory after slot swap
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:21:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101025012124.GA31262@redhat.com> (raw)
I have observed the following bug trigger:
1. userspace calls GET_DIRTY_LOG
2. kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access is called and makes a page ro
3. page fault happens and makes the page writeable
fault is logged in the bitmap appropriately
4. kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log swaps slot pointers
a lot of time passes
5. guest writes into the page
6. userspace calls GET_DIRTY_LOG
At point (5), bitmap is clean and page is writeable,
thus, guest modification of memory is not logged
and GET_DIRTY_LOG returns an empty bitmap.
The rule is that all pages are either dirty in the current bitmap,
or write-protected, which is violated here.
It seems that just moving kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access down
to after the slot pointer swap should fix this bug.
Warning: completely untested.
Please comment.
Note: fix will be needed for -stable etc.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 3a09c62..4ca1d7f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2912,10 +2912,6 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm,
struct kvm_memslots *slots, *old_slots;
unsigned long *dirty_bitmap;
- spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
- kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(kvm, log->slot);
- spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
-
r = -ENOMEM;
dirty_bitmap = vmalloc(n);
if (!dirty_bitmap)
@@ -2937,6 +2933,10 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm,
dirty_bitmap = old_slots->memslots[log->slot].dirty_bitmap;
kfree(old_slots);
+ spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+ kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(kvm, log->slot);
+ spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+
r = -EFAULT;
if (copy_to_user(log->dirty_bitmap, dirty_bitmap, n)) {
vfree(dirty_bitmap);
--
1.7.3-rc1
next reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-25 1:21 Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2010-10-25 7:27 ` [PATCH RFC] kvm: write protect memory after slot swap Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-10-25 9:07 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-10-25 12:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-10-26 6:38 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-10-25 9:32 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-25 11:40 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-10-25 11:50 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-25 11:51 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-24 19:16 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-11-25 9:18 ` Avi Kivity
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