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
>
next prev parent 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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