Re: [PATCH] xen: arm: do not BUG on guest paddrs which are very high

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>]

On 12/05/2013 12:53 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> The BUG_ON in p2m_map_first was over aggressive since the paddr_t can have
> come from the guest, via add_to_physmap. Instead return failure to the caller.
>
> Also the check was simultaneously too lose. The valid offsets are
> 0..P2M_FIRST_ENTRIES-1 inclusive.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> ---
>   xen/arch/arm/p2m.c |   10 +++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c b/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c
> index 1d5c841..cd134d4 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c
> @@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ static lpae_t *p2m_map_first(struct p2m_domain *p2m, paddr_t addr)
>   {
>       struct page_info *page;
>
> -    BUG_ON(first_linear_offset(addr) > P2M_FIRST_ENTRIES);
> +    if ( first_linear_offset(addr) >= P2M_FIRST_ENTRIES )
> +        return NULL;
>
>       page = p2m->first_level + p2m_first_level_index(addr);
>
> @@ -80,6 +81,8 @@ paddr_t p2m_lookup(struct domain *d, paddr_t paddr)
>       spin_lock(&p2m->lock);
>
>       first = p2m_map_first(p2m, paddr);
> +    if ( !first )
> +        goto done;

If you jump to done, you will use pte which is uninitialized. Unlock the 
spinlock should be enough here.

-- 
Julien Grall