[PATCH 01/13] KVM: Assert that mmu_invalidate_in_progress *never* goes negative

Sean Christopherson
2023-09-21T21:08:18Z

Move the assertion on the in-progress invalidation count from the primary
MMU's notifier path to KVM's common notification path, i.e. assert that
the count doesn't go negative even when the invalidation is coming from
KVM itself.

Opportunistically convert the assertion to a KVM_BUG_ON(), i.e. kill only
the affected VM, not the entire kernel. A corrupted count is fatal to the
VM, e.g. the non-zero (negative) count will cause mmu_invalidate_retry()
to block any and all attempts to install new mappings. But it's far from
guaranteed that an end() without a start() is fatal or even problematic to
anything other than the target VM, e.g. the underlying bug could simply be
a duplicate call to end(). And it's much more likely that a missed
invalidation, i.e. a potential use-after-free, would manifest as no
notification whatsoever, not an end() without a start().

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index a83dfef1316e..30708e460568 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -870,6 +870,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_invalidate_end(struct kvm *kvm)
* in conjunction with the smp_rmb in mmu_invalidate_retry().
*/
kvm->mmu_invalidate_in_progress--;
+ KVM_BUG_ON(kvm->mmu_invalidate_in_progress < 0, kvm);

/*
* Assert that at least one range must be added between start() and
@@ -906,8 +907,6 @@ static void kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
*/
if (wake)
rcuwait_wake_up(&kvm->mn_memslots_update_rcuwait);
-
- BUG_ON(kvm->mmu_invalidate_in_progress < 0);
}

static int kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
--
2.42.0.515.g380fc7ccd1-goog