[PATCH 2/2] arm/arm64: KVM: Ensure memslots are within KVM_PHYS_SIZE
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Mon Oct 6 06:47:01 PDT 2014
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 01:46:51PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:42:54PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > When creating or moving a memslot, make sure the IPA space is within the
> > addressable range of the guest. Otherwise, user space can create too
> > large a memslot and KVM would try to access potentially unallocated page
> > table entries when inserting entries in the Stage-2 page tables.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> > ---
> > arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 8 ++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> > index 4532f5f..52a311a 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> > @@ -975,6 +975,9 @@ int kvm_handle_guest_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
> > goto out_unlock;
> > }
> >
> > + /* Userspace should not be able to register out-of-bounds IPAs */
>
> I think "userspace" is a bit misleading (should be "guests").
>
see below
> > + VM_BUG_ON(fault_ipa >= KVM_PHYS_SIZE);
>
> Can guests not generate IPA addresses higher than KVM_PHYS_SIZE? I don't
> see why this wouldn't be possible when PARange > 40.
>
Guests can, but higher in this function we resolve the the gfn (IPA) to
a memslot (hva). That only succeeds if userspace actually managed to
register a memslot with such an IPA, which we prevent in the other part
of this patch. So if we get here, it's a bug, because we should have
entered the section above and taken the goto out_unlock.
Makes sense?
Thanks,
-Christoffer
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