Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] translate-all: Bugfix for user-mode self-modifying code in 2 page long TB

["Стас Шмаров" <snarpix@gmail.com>]

Yes, you are right. If host page contains several guest pages, and
instruction in TB from second page writes to first(not associated with that
TB), that will cause the same problem. I updated the patch.

2016-07-05 22:31 GMT+03:00 Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com>:

> On 05/07/16 13:45, Stanislav Shmarov wrote:
> > In user-mode emulation Translation Block can consist of 2 guest pages.
> > In that case QEMU also mprotects 2 host pages that are dedicated for
> > guest memory, containing instructions. QEMU detects self-modifying code
> > with SEGFAULT signal processing.
> >
> > In case if instruction in 1st page is modifying memory of 2nd
> > page (or vice versa) QEMU will mark 2nd page with PAGE_WRITE,
> > invalidate TB, generate new TB contatining 1 guest instruction and
> > exit to CPU loop. QEMU won't call mprotect, and new TB will cause
> > same SEGFAULT. Page will have both PAGE_WRITE_ORG and PAGE_WRITE
> > flags, so QEMU will handle the signal as guest binary problem,
> > and exit with guest SEGFAULT.
> >
> > Solution is retranslate TB before marking pages as PAGE_WRITE,
> > and remove protection with mprotect on second SEGFAULT.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stanislav Shmarov <snarpix@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  translate-all.c | 10 +++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/translate-all.c b/translate-all.c
> > index eaa95e4..1e2ac84 100644
> > --- a/translate-all.c
> > +++ b/translate-all.c
> > @@ -2022,11 +2022,7 @@ int page_unprotect(target_ulong address,
> uintptr_t pc)
> >
> >          prot = 0;
> >          for (addr = host_start ; addr < host_end ; addr +=
> TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {
> > -            p = page_find(addr >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS);
> > -            p->flags |= PAGE_WRITE;
> > -            prot |= p->flags;
> > -
> > -            /* and since the content will be modified, we must
> invalidate
> > +            /* Since the content will be modified, we must invalidate
> >                 the corresponding translated code. */
> >              if (tb_invalidate_phys_page(addr, pc)) {
> >                  mmap_unlock();
> > @@ -2035,6 +2031,10 @@ int page_unprotect(target_ulong address,
> uintptr_t pc)
> >  #ifdef DEBUG_TB_CHECK
> >              tb_invalidate_check(addr);
> >  #endif
> > +
> > +            p = page_find(addr >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS);
> > +            p->flags |= PAGE_WRITE;
> > +            prot |= p->flags;
>
> I'm afraid you need to do this even later, out of the loop for guest
> pages, to ensure that mprotect() will be eventually called. That will
> require a separate loop through all the guest pages which make up the
> host page.
>
> Kind regards,
> Sergey
>
> >          }
> >          mprotect((void *)g2h(host_start), qemu_host_page_size,
> >                   prot & PAGE_BITS);
>
>