From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>,
Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>,
Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kvm: mmu: don't do memslot overflow check
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 17:01:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <552E7D3C.2090703@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1429064694-3072-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
On 15/04/2015 04:24, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> As Andres pointed out:
>
> | I don't understand the value of this check here. Are we looking for a
> | broken memslot? Shouldn't this be a BUG_ON? Is this the place to care
> | about these things? npages is capped to KVM_MEM_MAX_NR_PAGES, i.e.
> | 2^31. A 64 bit overflow would be caused by a gigantic gfn_start which
> | would be trouble in many other ways.
>
> This patch drops the memslot overflow check to make the codes more simple.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> * Fix Andres's name
> * Add Andres's Reviewed-by
>
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 12 ++----------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 2a0d77e..9265fda 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -4505,19 +4505,12 @@ void kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_sptes(struct kvm *kvm,
> bool flush = false;
> unsigned long *rmapp;
> unsigned long last_index, index;
> - gfn_t gfn_start, gfn_end;
>
> spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>
> - gfn_start = memslot->base_gfn;
> - gfn_end = memslot->base_gfn + memslot->npages - 1;
> -
> - if (gfn_start >= gfn_end)
> - goto out;
> -
> rmapp = memslot->arch.rmap[0];
> - last_index = gfn_to_index(gfn_end, memslot->base_gfn,
> - PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL);
> + last_index = gfn_to_index(memslot->base_gfn + memslot->npages - 1,
> + memslot->base_gfn, PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL);
>
> for (index = 0; index <= last_index; ++index, ++rmapp) {
> if (*rmapp)
> @@ -4535,7 +4528,6 @@ void kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_sptes(struct kvm *kvm,
> if (flush)
> kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
>
> -out:
> spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> }
>
>
Thanks, queued for 4.1.
Paolo
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2015-04-15 2:24 [PATCH v2] kvm: mmu: don't do memslot overflow check Wanpeng Li
2015-04-15 15:01 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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