From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: Handle hva aging while destroying the vm
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 17:21:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1498231319-199734-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> (raw)
If we want to age an HVA while the VM is getting destroyed, we have a
tiny race window during which we may end up dereferencing an invalid
kvm->arch.pgd value.
CPU0 CPU1
kvm_age_hva()
kvm_mmu_notifier_release()
kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all()
kvm_free_stage2_pgd()
<grab mmu_lock>
stage2_get_pmd()
<wait for mmu_lock>
set kvm->arch.pgd = 0
<free mmu_lock>
<grab mmu_lock>
stage2_get_pud()
<access kvm->arch.pgd>
<use incorrect value>
This patch adds a check for that case.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
---
virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
index f2d5b6c..227931f 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
@@ -861,6 +861,10 @@ static pud_t *stage2_get_pud(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache
pgd_t *pgd;
pud_t *pud;
+ /* Do we clash with kvm_free_stage2_pgd()? */
+ if (!kvm->arch.pgd)
+ return NULL;
+
pgd = kvm->arch.pgd + stage2_pgd_index(addr);
if (WARN_ON(stage2_pgd_none(*pgd))) {
if (!cache)
--
1.8.5.6
next reply other threads:[~2017-06-23 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-23 15:21 Alexander Graf [this message]
2017-07-03 8:03 ` [PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: Handle hva aging while destroying the vm Christoffer Dall
2017-07-03 8:48 ` Alexander Graf
2017-07-03 23:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2017-07-04 8:35 ` Christoffer Dall
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