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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	alex.williamson@redhat.com, kevin.tian@intel.com, jgg@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfio/type1: check pfn valid before converting to struct page
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 08:52:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZGebTm4GCYSHDAQ5@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230519065843.10653-1-yan.y.zhao@intel.com>

On Fri, May 19, 2023, Yan Zhao wrote:
> Check physical PFN is valid before converting the PFN to a struct page
> pointer to be returned to caller of vfio_pin_pages().
> 
> vfio_pin_pages() pins user pages with contiguous IOVA.
> If the IOVA of a user page to be pinned belongs to vma of vm_flags
> VM_PFNMAP, pin_user_pages_remote() will return -EFAULT without returning
> struct page address for this PFN. This is because usually this kind of PFN
> (e.g. MMIO PFN) has no valid struct page address associated.
> Upon this error, vaddr_get_pfns() will obtain the physical PFN directly.
> 
> While previously vfio_pin_pages() returns to caller PFN arrays directly,
> after commit
> 34a255e67615 ("vfio: Replace phys_pfn with pages for vfio_pin_pages()"),
> PFNs will be converted to "struct page *" unconditionally and therefore
> the returned "struct page *" array may contain invalid struct page
> addresses.
> 
> Given current in-tree users of vfio_pin_pages() only expect "struct page *
> returned, check PFN validity and return -EINVAL to let the caller be
> aware of IOVAs to be pinned containing PFN not able to be returned in
> "struct page *" array. So that, the caller will not consume the returned
> pointer (e.g. test PageReserved()) and avoid error like "supervisor read
> access in kernel mode".
> 
> Fixes: 34a255e67615 ("vfio: Replace phys_pfn with pages for vfio_pin_pages()")
> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-19 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-19  6:58 [PATCH v2] vfio/type1: check pfn valid before converting to struct page Yan Zhao
2023-05-19 15:52 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2023-05-22 19:00 ` Alex Williamson
2023-05-23  5:48   ` Yan Zhao
2023-05-23 20:15     ` Alex Williamson
2023-05-23 21:44 ` Alex Williamson

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