From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost/vdpa: reject overflowing PA map page counts
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:53:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260624153850-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260624190653.2893-1-alhouseenyousef@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 09:06:53PM +0200, Yousef Alhouseen wrote:
> vhost_vdpa_pa_map() adds the IOVA page offset to the user-controlled map
> size before computing the number of pages to pin. If that addition wraps,
> the code can pin and map fewer pages than the requested IOTLB range.
>
> Reject sizes that overflow the page-count calculation.
You should add "on 32 bit systems" - I do not see how it can
overflow on 64 bit.
> Also make the
> memlock check subtraction-based so a large page count cannot wrap the
> pinned page total.
I don't see how this can happen at all - pinned_vm is in units of pages.
> Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> index ac55275fa..090cb8693 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> @@ -1102,6 +1102,8 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_pa_map(struct vhost_vdpa *v,
> unsigned int gup_flags = FOLL_LONGTERM;
> unsigned long npages, cur_base, map_pfn, last_pfn = 0;
> unsigned long lock_limit, sz2pin, nchunks, i;
> + unsigned long page_offset;
> + u64 pinned_vm;
> u64 start = iova;
> long pinned;
> int ret = 0;
> @@ -1114,7 +1116,12 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_pa_map(struct vhost_vdpa *v,
> if (perm & VHOST_ACCESS_WO)
> gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
>
> - npages = PFN_UP(size + (iova & ~PAGE_MASK));
> + page_offset = iova & ~PAGE_MASK;
> + if (size > ULONG_MAX - page_offset) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto free;
> + }
> + npages = PFN_UP(size + page_offset);
> if (!npages) {
> ret = -EINVAL;
> goto free;
> @@ -1123,7 +1130,8 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_pa_map(struct vhost_vdpa *v,
> mmap_read_lock(dev->mm);
>
> lock_limit = PFN_DOWN(rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK));
> - if (npages + atomic64_read(&dev->mm->pinned_vm) > lock_limit) {
> + pinned_vm = atomic64_read(&dev->mm->pinned_vm);
> + if (npages > lock_limit || pinned_vm > lock_limit - npages) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto unlock;
> }
> --
> 2.54.0
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-24 19:06 [PATCH] vhost/vdpa: reject overflowing PA map page counts Yousef Alhouseen
2026-06-24 19:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
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