[PATCH 2/2] arm/arm64: KVM: Ensure memslots are within KVM_PHYS_SIZE

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Oct 6 09:02:23 PDT 2014


On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 02:47:01PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> 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.

OK. I got it now.

-- 
Catalin



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