Re: [PATCH 5/5] fix kvm's use of __pa() on percpu areas

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:38:06PM -0600, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Final question: are any of these done in frequent paths?  (I believe no, but...)
> 
No, only during guest boot.

> Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >In short, it is illegal to call __pa() on an address holding
> >a percpu variable.  The times when this actually matters are
> >pretty obscure (certain 32-bit NUMA systems), but it _does_
> >happen.  It is important to keep KVM guests working on these
> >systems because the real hardware is getting harder and
> >harder to find.
> >
> >This bug manifested first by me seeing a plain hang at boot
> >after this message:
> >
> >	CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=f3018000 soft=f301a000
> >
> >or, sometimes, it would actually make it out to the console:
> >
> >[    0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff
> >
> >I eventually traced it down to the KVM async pagefault code.
> >This can be worked around by disabling that code either at
> >compile-time, or on the kernel command-line.
> >
> >The kvm async pagefault code was injecting page faults in
> >to the guest which the guest misinterpreted because its
> >"reason" was not being properly sent from the host.
> >
> >The guest passes a physical address of an per-cpu async page
> >fault structure via an MSR to the host.  Since __pa() is
> >broken on percpu data, the physical address it sent was
> >bascially bogus and the host went scribbling on random data.
> >The guest never saw the real reason for the page fault (it
> >was injected by the host), assumed that the kernel had taken
> >a _real_ page fault, and panic()'d.  The behavior varied,
> >though, depending on what got corrupted by the bad write.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> >---
> >
> > linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c      |    9 +++++----
> > linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c |    4 ++--
> > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c~fix-kvm-__pa-use-on-percpu-areas
> >arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> >---
> >linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c~fix-kvm-__pa-use-on-percpu-areas	2013-01-17
> >10:22:26.914436992 -0800
> >+++ linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c	2013-01-17
> >10:22:26.922437062 -0800
> >@@ -289,9 +289,9 @@ static void kvm_register_steal_time(void
> > 
> > 	memset(st, 0, sizeof(*st));
> > 
> >-	wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME, (__pa(st) | KVM_MSR_ENABLED));
> >+	wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME, (slow_virt_to_phys(st) |
> >KVM_MSR_ENABLED));
> > 	printk(KERN_INFO "kvm-stealtime: cpu %d, msr %lx\n",
> >-		cpu, __pa(st));
> >+		cpu, slow_virt_to_phys(st));
> > }
> > 
> >static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, kvm_apic_eoi) =
> >KVM_PV_EOI_DISABLED;
> >@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ void __cpuinit kvm_guest_cpu_init(void)
> > 		return;
> > 
> > 	if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF) && kvmapf) {
> >-		u64 pa = __pa(&__get_cpu_var(apf_reason));
> >+		u64 pa = slow_virt_to_phys(&__get_cpu_var(apf_reason));
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
> > 		pa |= KVM_ASYNC_PF_SEND_ALWAYS;
> >@@ -332,7 +332,8 @@ void __cpuinit kvm_guest_cpu_init(void)
> > 		/* Size alignment is implied but just to make it explicit. */
> > 		BUILD_BUG_ON(__alignof__(kvm_apic_eoi) < 4);
> > 		__get_cpu_var(kvm_apic_eoi) = 0;
> >-		pa = __pa(&__get_cpu_var(kvm_apic_eoi)) | KVM_MSR_ENABLED;
> >+		pa = slow_virt_to_phys(&__get_cpu_var(kvm_apic_eoi))
> >+			| KVM_MSR_ENABLED;
> > 		wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN, pa);
> > 	}
> > 
> >diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c~fix-kvm-__pa-use-on-percpu-areas
> >arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> >---
> >linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c~fix-kvm-__pa-use-on-percpu-areas	2013-01-17
> >10:22:26.918437028 -0800
> >+++ linux-2.6.git-dave/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c	2013-01-17
> >10:22:26.922437062 -0800
> >@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ int kvm_register_clock(char *txt)
> > 	int low, high, ret;
> > 	struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src = &hv_clock[cpu].pvti;
> > 
> >-	low = (int)__pa(src) | 1;
> >-	high = ((u64)__pa(src) >> 32);
> >+	low = (int)slow_virt_to_phys(src) | 1;
> >+	high = ((u64)slow_virt_to_phys(src) >> 32);
> > 	ret = native_write_msr_safe(msr_kvm_system_time, low, high);
> > 	printk(KERN_INFO "kvm-clock: cpu %d, msr %x:%x, %s\n",
> > 	       cpu, high, low, txt);
> >_
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting.

--
			Gleb.

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