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From: cdall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] kvm: arm/arm64: Fix locking for kvm_free_stage2_pgd
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:21:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170315092147.GM1277@cbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1489503154-20705-4-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com>

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 02:52:34PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> In kvm_free_stage2_pgd() we don't hold the kvm->mmu_lock while calling
> unmap_stage2_range() on the entire memory range for the guest. This could
> cause problems with other callers (e.g, munmap on a memslot) trying to
> unmap a range.
> 
> Fixes: commit d5d8184d35c9 ("KVM: ARM: Memory virtualization setup")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> index 13b9c1f..b361f71 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -831,7 +831,10 @@ void kvm_free_stage2_pgd(struct kvm *kvm)
>  	if (kvm->arch.pgd == NULL)
>  		return;
>  
> +	spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>  	unmap_stage2_range(kvm, 0, KVM_PHYS_SIZE);
> +	spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> +

This ends up holding the spin lock for potentially quite a while, where
we can do things like __flush_dcache_area(), which I think can fault.

Is that valid?

Thanks,
-Christoffer

>  	/* Free the HW pgd, one page at a time */
>  	free_pages_exact(kvm->arch.pgd, S2_PGD_SIZE);
>  	kvm->arch.pgd = NULL;
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-15  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-14 14:52 [PATCH 0/3] kvm: arm/arm64: Fixes for use after free problems Suzuki K Poulose
2017-03-14 14:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] kvm: arm/arm64: Take mmap_sem in stage2_unmap_vm Suzuki K Poulose
2017-03-15  9:17   ` Christoffer Dall
2017-03-15  9:34     ` Marc Zyngier
2017-03-15 11:05       ` Christoffer Dall
2017-03-15 13:29     ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-03-14 14:52 ` [PATCH 2/3] kvm: arm/arm64: Take mmap_sem in kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region Suzuki K Poulose
2017-03-15 11:05   ` Christoffer Dall
2017-03-14 14:52 ` [PATCH 3/3] kvm: arm/arm64: Fix locking for kvm_free_stage2_pgd Suzuki K Poulose
2017-03-15  9:21   ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
2017-03-15  9:39     ` Marc Zyngier
2017-03-15 10:56       ` Christoffer Dall
2017-03-15 13:28         ` Marc Zyngier
2017-03-15 13:35           ` Christoffer Dall
2017-03-15 13:43             ` Marc Zyngier
2017-03-15 13:50               ` Robin Murphy
2017-03-15 13:55                 ` Marc Zyngier
2017-03-15 14:33           ` Suzuki K Poulose
2017-03-15 15:07             ` Marc Zyngier

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