Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/6] KVM: Remove uses of struct page from x86 and arm64 MMU

Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-24T10:34:35Z

Excerpts from David Stevens's message of June 24, 2021 1:57 pm:
> KVM supports mapping VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory into the guest by using
> follow_pte in gfn_to_pfn. However, the resolved pfns may not have
> assoicated struct pages, so they should not be passed to pfn_to_page.
> This series removes such calls from the x86 and arm64 secondary MMU. To
> do this, this series modifies gfn_to_pfn to return a struct page in
> addition to a pfn, if the hva was resolved by gup. This allows the
> caller to call put_page only when necessated by gup.
>
> This series provides a helper function that unwraps the new return type
> of gfn_to_pfn to provide behavior identical to the old behavior. As I
> have no hardware to test powerpc/mips changes, the function is used
> there for minimally invasive changes. Additionally, as gfn_to_page and
> gfn_to_pfn_cache are not integrated with mmu notifier, they cannot be
> easily changed over to only use pfns.
>
> This addresses CVE-2021-22543 on x86 and arm64.

Does this fix the problem? (untested I don't have a POC setup at hand,
but at least in concept)

I have no problem with improving the API and probably in the direction
of your series is good. But there seems to be a lot of unfixed arch code
and broken APIs remaining left to do after your series too. This might
be most suitable to backport and as a base for your series that can take
more time to convert to new APIs.

Thanks,
Nick

---

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 6a6bc7af0e28..e208c279d903 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2104,13 +2104,21 @@ static int hva_to_pfn_remapped(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* Whoever called remap_pfn_range is also going to call e.g.
* unmap_mapping_range before the underlying pages are freed,
* causing a call to our MMU notifier.
+ *
+ * Certain IO or PFNMAP mappings can be backed with valid
+ * struct pages, but be allocated without refcounting e.g.,
+ * tail pages of non-compound higher order allocations, which
+ * would then underflow the refcount when the caller does the
+ * required put_page. Don't allow those pages here.
*/
- kvm_get_pfn(pfn);
+ if (!kvm_try_get_pfn(pfn))
+ r = -EFAULT;

out:
pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
*p_pfn = pfn;
- return 0;
+
+ return r;
}

/*
@@ -2487,6 +2495,13 @@ void kvm_set_pfn_accessed(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_set_pfn_accessed);

+static int kvm_try_get_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
+{
+ if (kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn))
+ return 1;
+ return get_page_unless_zero(pfn_to_page(pfn));
+}
+
void kvm_get_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
{
if (!kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn))