From: "Gabriel Quintáns Souto" <gabi.qs.mail@gmail.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org, julien@xen.org, bertrand.marquis@arm.com,
michal.orzel@amd.com, Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com,
"Gabriel Quintáns Souto" <gabi.qs.mail@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4] xen/arm: validate non-common page-table ranges
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 15:52:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110145231.7409-1-gabi.qs.mail@gmail.com> (raw)
On arm32, page-tables are different on each CPUs, although they share some
common mappings.
The xen_pt_update function assumed that only said mappings would be
modified, but did not check this assumption.
Add a range check to reject modifications to non-common mappings.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Quintáns Souto <gabi.qs.mail@gmail.com>
---
v4:
- Rebased onto staging (v3 was diffed against v2).
v3:
- Dropped accidentally tracked patch file from commit.
v2:
- Inverted polarity of xen_pt_range_is_non_common() as suggested.
- Moved xen_pt_range_is_common() implementation to arch-specific headers
(arm32 vs arm64) instead of keeping #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_32 in pt.c (tried
IS_ENABLED() for DCE, but ARM64 lacks definitions for
DOMHEAP_VIRT_START/TEMPORARY_AREA_ADDR, breaking the build).
- Added ASSERT_UNREACHABLE() on failure path in xen_pt_update().
---
xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm32/mm.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/mm.h | 10 ++++++++++
xen/arch/arm/mmu/pt.c | 14 +++++++-------
3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm32/mm.h b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm32/mm.h
index 856f2db..c7d09d3 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm32/mm.h
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm32/mm.h
@@ -16,6 +16,30 @@ static inline bool arch_mfns_in_directmap(unsigned long mfn, unsigned long nr)
return false;
}
+static inline bool ranges_overlap(unsigned long start1, unsigned long size1,
+ unsigned long start2, unsigned long size2)
+{
+ if ( start1 < start2 )
+ return start2 - start1 < size1;
+
+ return start1 - start2 < size2;
+}
+
+/*
+ * On ARM32, page-tables differ between CPUs, so not all mappings are common.
+ */
+static inline bool xen_pt_range_is_common(unsigned long virt,
+ unsigned long size)
+{
+ unsigned long temporary_start = TEMPORARY_AREA_ADDR(0);
+ unsigned long temporary_size = XEN_PT_LEVEL_SIZE(1);
+
+ return !ranges_overlap(virt, size,
+ DOMHEAP_VIRT_START, DOMHEAP_VIRT_SIZE) &&
+ !ranges_overlap(virt, size,
+ temporary_start, temporary_size);
+}
+
bool init_domheap_mappings(unsigned int cpu);
static inline void arch_setup_page_tables(void)
diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/mm.h b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/mm.h
index b4f7545..a3cb56d 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/mm.h
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/mm.h
@@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ static inline bool arch_mfns_in_directmap(unsigned long mfn, unsigned long nr)
return true;
}
+/*
+ * On ARM64, the Xen page-tables are shared by all the CPUs,
+ * any range is therefore common.
+ */
+static inline bool xen_pt_range_is_common(unsigned long virt,
+ unsigned long size)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+
void arch_setup_page_tables(void);
void update_boot_mapping(bool enable);
diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/mmu/pt.c b/xen/arch/arm/mmu/pt.c
index 81fe121..42fa79a 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/mmu/pt.c
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/mmu/pt.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <asm/current.h>
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
+#include <asm/mmu/layout.h>
#ifdef NDEBUG
static inline void
@@ -601,15 +602,14 @@ static int xen_pt_update(unsigned long virt,
unsigned long vfn = virt >> PAGE_SHIFT;
unsigned long left = nr_mfns;
- /*
- * For arm32, page-tables are different on each CPUs. Yet, they share
- * some common mappings. It is assumed that only common mappings
- * will be modified with this function.
- *
- * XXX: Add a check.
- */
const mfn_t root = maddr_to_mfn(READ_SYSREG64(TTBR0_EL2));
+ if ( !xen_pt_range_is_common(virt, nr_mfns * PAGE_SIZE) )
+ {
+ ASSERT_UNREACHABLE();
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
if ( flags_has_rwx(flags) )
{
mm_printk("Mappings should not be both Writeable and Executable.\n");
--
2.56.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 14:53 UTC|newest]
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2026-11-10 14:52 Gabriel Quintáns Souto [this message]
2026-11-12 14:26 ` [PATCH v4] xen/arm: validate non-common page-table ranges Orzel, Michal
2026-11-14 1:53 ` Gabriel Quintáns Souto
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