From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Farhan Ali" <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vasily Gorbik" <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
"Alexander Gordeev" <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
"Heiko Carstens" <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/5] KVM: s390: pci: Fix AIBV and AISB spanning multiple pages
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:41:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260713174119.177F91F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260713172600.1284-6-alifm@linux.ibm.com>
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 3 potential issue(s) to consider:
New issues:
- [Medium] Multi-page pinning relies on a single host virtual address (HVA) translation, which fails across KVM memslot boundaries.
Pre-existing issues:
- [Critical] Hardware DMA and kernel virtual accesses overflow into unrelated physical pages due to lack of physical contiguity.
- [High] Repeated registration ioctls leak pinned memory pages and `airq_iv` structures.
--
--- Patch [5]: [PATCH v1 5/5] KVM: s390: pci: Fix AIBV and AISB spanning multiple pages ---
commit 4f8b3d86d13ac2b1f9a5979bfc8a008742cfc9de
Author: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
KVM: s390: pci: Fix AIBV and AISB spanning multiple pages
This patch modifies KVM s390 pci interrupt forwarding to pin multiple pages
for AIBV and AISB structures if they cross a page boundary. It calculates the
required number of pages and pins them to handle unbounded sizes or varying
alignments correctly.
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/pci.c b/arch/s390/kvm/pci.c
> index 9a16a2eac65b8..5fe07181f3d6a 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/pci.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/pci.c
> @@ -229,13 +229,15 @@ static inline int account_mem(unsigned long nr_pages)
> static int kvm_s390_pci_aif_enable(struct zpci_dev *zdev, struct zpci_fib *fib,
> bool assist)
> {
[ ... ]
> /* Replace AIBV address */
> + size = BITS_TO_LONGS(msi_vecs) * sizeof(unsigned long);
> + npages = DIV_ROUND_UP((fib->fmt0.aibv & ~PAGE_MASK) + size, PAGE_SIZE);
> + if (npages > MAX_AIF_PAGES) {
> + rc = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu);
> hva = gfn_to_hva(kvm, gpa_to_gfn((gpa_t)fib->fmt0.aibv));
> - npages = pin_user_pages_fast(hva, 1, FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM, pages);
> + npinned = pin_user_pages_fast(hva, npages, FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
> + kzdev->aibv_pages);
[Severity: Medium]
If the AIBV crosses a page boundary that aligns with a KVM memslot boundary
where the adjacent memslot maps to a disjoint HVA region, won't this pin the
wrong host memory pages since we only translate the first GFN to an HVA?
[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but if a guest repeatedly invokes the
registration ioctl for the same zPCI device, won't this leak pinned memory
pages by overwriting kzdev->aibv_pages without releasing the previous pages?
Similarly, when zdev->aibv is overwritten later in kvm_s390_pci_aif_enable():
zdev->aibv = airq_iv_create(msi_vecs, AIRQ_IV_DATA |
AIRQ_IV_BITLOCK |
AIRQ_IV_GUESTVEC,
phys_to_virt(fib->fmt0.aibv));
Does this leak the previous airq_iv structure and exhaust adapter interrupt
bit vectors?
> srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, idx);
> - if (npages < 1) {
> + if (npinned <= 0) {
> rc = -EIO;
> goto out;
> }
> - aibv_page = pages[0];
> - pcount++;
> +
> + kzdev->aibv_npages = npinned;
> + if (npinned < npages) {
> + rc = -EIO;
> + goto unpin1;
> + }
> +
> + pcount += npinned;
> + aibv_page = kzdev->aibv_pages[0];
> gaddr = page_to_phys(aibv_page) + (fib->fmt0.aibv & ~PAGE_MASK);
> fib->fmt0.aibv = gaddr;
[Severity: Critical]
This is a pre-existing issue, but if npinned is greater than 1 and the user
pages are not physically contiguous, won't providing a single base physical
address (gaddr) cause hardware DMA accesses to linearly overflow into
unrelated physical memory adjacent to aibv_page?
Also, later in kvm_s390_pci_aif_enable():
zdev->aibv = airq_iv_create(msi_vecs, AIRQ_IV_DATA |
AIRQ_IV_BITLOCK |
AIRQ_IV_GUESTVEC,
phys_to_virt(fib->fmt0.aibv));
Does phys_to_virt(fib->fmt0.aibv) similarly cause kernel virtual accesses
to corrupt unrelated physical memory if the pages are not contiguous?
--
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260713172600.1284-1-alifm@linux.ibm.com?part=5
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-13 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-13 17:25 [PATCH v1 0/5] KVM s390x PCI fixes Farhan Ali
2026-07-13 17:25 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] KVM: s390: pci: Fix refcount leak in memory accounting functions Farhan Ali
2026-07-13 17:41 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-13 17:25 ` [PATCH v1 2/5] KVM: s390: pci: Fix missing error codes and memory unaccounting Farhan Ali
2026-07-13 17:41 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-13 17:25 ` [PATCH v1 3/5] KVM: s390: pci: Fix NULL dereference on AIBV allocation failure Farhan Ali
2026-07-13 17:50 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-13 17:25 ` [PATCH v1 4/5] KVM: s390: pci: Fix resource leak on IRQ registration failure Farhan Ali
2026-07-13 17:43 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-13 17:26 ` [PATCH v1 5/5] KVM: s390: pci: Fix AIBV and AISB spanning multiple pages Farhan Ali
2026-07-13 17:41 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20260713174119.177F91F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org \
--to=sashiko-bot@kernel.org \
--cc=agordeev@linux.ibm.com \
--cc=alifm@linux.ibm.com \
--cc=gor@linux.ibm.com \
--cc=hca@linux.ibm.com \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-s390@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=sashiko-reviews@lists.linux.dev \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.