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From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] MIPS: KVM: Fix MMU/TLB management issues
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:37:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160812123721.GE8001@potion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.e70247d7d77e67a2331e65b6b7fd3894508e5d28.1470911944.git-series.james.hogan@imgtec.com>

2016-08-11 11:52+0100, James Hogan:
> These patches fix several issues in the management of MIPS KVM TLB
> faults:
> 
> 1) kvm_mips_handle_mapped_seg_tlb_fault() misbehaves for virtual address
>    zero, which can be hit if the guest creates such a mapping and
>    accesses it in a way unexpected for the commpage (e.g. a CACHE
>    instruction).
> 
> 2) kvm_mips_handle_mapped_seg_tlb_fault() doesn't range check the gfn,
>    allowing a high mapping by the guest to overflow the guest_pmap[].
> 
> 3) kvm_mips_handle_kseg0_tlb_fault() has an off by one in its gfn range
>    check, which could allow an odd sized guest_pmap[] to be overflowed.
> 
> 4) some callers of kvm_mips_handle_kseg0_tlb_fault() and
>    kvm_mips_handle_mapped_seg_tlb_fault() don't correctly propagate
>    errors upwards.
> 
> They're all marked for stable but won't apply cleanly before v4.8-rc1
> due to recent changes. I have backports ready though.

Applied, thanks.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-12 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-11 10:52 [PATCH 0/4] MIPS: KVM: Fix MMU/TLB management issues James Hogan
2016-08-11 10:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] MIPS: KVM: Fix mapped fault broken commpage handling James Hogan
2016-08-11 10:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] MIPS: KVM: Add missing gfn range check James Hogan
2016-08-11 10:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] MIPS: KVM: Fix gfn range check in kseg0 tlb faults James Hogan
2016-08-11 10:58 ` [PATCH 4/4] MIPS: KVM: Propagate kseg0/mapped tlb fault errors James Hogan
2016-08-12 12:37 ` Radim Krčmář [this message]

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