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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC] kvm: write protect memory after slot swap
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:21:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101025012124.GA31262@redhat.com> (raw)

I have observed the following bug trigger:

1. userspace calls GET_DIRTY_LOG
2. kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access is called and makes a page ro
3. page fault happens and makes the page writeable
   fault is logged in the bitmap appropriately
4. kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log swaps slot pointers

a lot of time passes

5. guest writes into the page
6. userspace calls GET_DIRTY_LOG

At point (5), bitmap is clean and page is writeable,
thus, guest modification of memory is not logged
and GET_DIRTY_LOG returns an empty bitmap.

The rule is that all pages are either dirty in the current bitmap,
or write-protected, which is violated here.

It seems that just moving kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access down
to after the slot pointer swap should fix this bug.

Warning: completely untested.
Please comment.
Note: fix will be needed for -stable etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 3a09c62..4ca1d7f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2912,10 +2912,6 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm,
 		struct kvm_memslots *slots, *old_slots;
 		unsigned long *dirty_bitmap;
 
-		spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
-		kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(kvm, log->slot);
-		spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
-
 		r = -ENOMEM;
 		dirty_bitmap = vmalloc(n);
 		if (!dirty_bitmap)
@@ -2937,6 +2933,10 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm,
 		dirty_bitmap = old_slots->memslots[log->slot].dirty_bitmap;
 		kfree(old_slots);
 
+		spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+		kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(kvm, log->slot);
+		spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+
 		r = -EFAULT;
 		if (copy_to_user(log->dirty_bitmap, dirty_bitmap, n)) {
 			vfree(dirty_bitmap);
-- 
1.7.3-rc1

             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-25  1:21 Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2010-10-25  7:27 ` [PATCH RFC] kvm: write protect memory after slot swap Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-10-25  9:07 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-10-25 12:05   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-10-26  6:38     ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-10-25  9:32 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-25 11:40   ` Jan Kiszka
2010-10-25 11:50     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-25 11:51       ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-24 19:16   ` Jan Kiszka
2010-11-25  9:18     ` Avi Kivity

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