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From: "Lendacky, Thomas" <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
	"Marek Szyprowski" <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	"Robin Murphy" <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, "Ram Pai" <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/kvmclock: set_memory_decrypted() takes number of pages
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:43:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d40ab37e-ae46-dce8-21f9-b62c062cab84@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190122211758.8317-2-bauerman@linux.ibm.com>

On 1/22/19 3:17 PM, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
> 
> set_memory_decrypted() expects the number of PAGE_SIZE pages to decrypt.
> kvmclock_init_mem() instead passes number of bytes. This decrypts a huge
> number of pages resulting in data corruption.

Same comment as patch 1/2 in this series.  This is not correct. See
comments below.

> 
> Fixed it.
> 
> [ bauermann: Slightly reworded commit message and added Fixes: tag. ]
> Fixes: 6a1cac56f41f ("x86/kvm: Use __bss_decrypted attribute in shared variables")
> Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Note: Found by code inspection. I don't have a way to test.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> index e811d4d1c824..b5c867dd2c8d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> @@ -251,8 +251,7 @@ static void __init kvmclock_init_mem(void)
>  	 * be mapped decrypted.
>  	 */
>  	if (sev_active()) {
> -		r = set_memory_decrypted((unsigned long) hvclock_mem,
> -					 1UL << order);
> +		r = set_memory_decrypted((unsigned long) hvclock_mem, 1);

Again, not correct. A number of pages were allocated based on the order.
That number is calculated using the shift in the call. Hardcoding this to
1 is wrong.

Thanks,
Tom

>  		if (r) {
>  			__free_pages(p, order);
>  			hvclock_mem = NULL;
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-22 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-22 21:17 [PATCH 1/2] dma-direct: set_memory_{en,de}crypted() take number of pages Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-01-22 21:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/kvmclock: set_memory_decrypted() takes " Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-01-22 21:43   ` Lendacky, Thomas [this message]
2019-01-22 21:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] dma-direct: set_memory_{en,de}crypted() take " Lendacky, Thomas
2019-01-22 22:38   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann

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