[GIT PULL] arm/arm64: KVM: Fix unaligned access bug on gicv2 access

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Tue Sep 23 05:48:54 PDT 2014


Il 23/09/2014 14:44, Andre Przywara ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> On 23/09/14 12:50, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 23/09/2014 13:14, Christoffer Dall ha scritto:
>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:36:30AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>> Il 23/09/2014 00:07, Will Deacon ha scritto:
>>>>>>>  {
>>>>>>>  	if (!(lr_desc.state & LR_STATE_MASK))
>>>>>>> -		set_bit(lr, (unsigned long *)vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.vgic_v2.vgic_elrsr);
>>>>>>> +		__set_bit(lr, (unsigned long *)vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.vgic_v2.vgic_elrsr);
>>>>>>>  }
>>>>> Does this work for big-endian arm64 machines? Surely the bug is due to
>>>>> casting a u32 * to an unsigned long *, and not specifically related to
>>>>> atomics (which is where it happened to explode)?
>>>>
>>> It does look like the whole thing is broken on BE systems, but fixing
>>> that becomes non-trivial.  I don't think this fix is incorrect in
>>> itself, but we do have a larger issue with BE.
>>>
>>> I took a stab at fixing this (untested for BE), which looks something
>>> like the following, but I'm a bit uneasy about having to test and merge
>>> this as a fix given the rush before 3.17 is released.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> If big-endian is broken anyway, let's apply this only:
>>
>>> diff --git a/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h b/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
>>> index 35b0c12..c66dc9ed 100644
>>> --- a/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
>>> +++ b/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
>>> @@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ struct vgic_v2_cpu_if {
>>>  	u32		vgic_hcr;
>>>  	u32		vgic_vmcr;
>>>  	u32		vgic_misr;	/* Saved only */
>>> -	u32		vgic_eisr[2];	/* Saved only */
>>> -	u32		vgic_elrsr[2];	/* Saved only */
>>> +	u64		vgic_eisr;	/* Saved only */
>>> +	u64		vgic_elrsr;	/* Saved only */
>>>  	u32		vgic_apr;
>>>  	u32		vgic_lr[VGIC_V2_MAX_LRS];
>>>  };
> 
> I think Marc's point on this was not to spoil 32bit code (as this is the
> GIC, which is shared). In the GICv2 spec the register are declared as a
> number of 32 bit registers, so there is some sense in keeping it u32.
> So I came up with the following this morning:
> 
> diff --git a/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h b/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
> index 35b0c12..6f884df 100644
> --- a/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
> +++ b/include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
> @@ -168,8 +168,14 @@ struct vgic_v2_cpu_if {
>         u32             vgic_hcr;
>         u32             vgic_vmcr;
>         u32             vgic_misr;      /* Saved only */
> -       u32             vgic_eisr[2];   /* Saved only */
> -       u32             vgic_elrsr[2];  /* Saved only */
> +       union {
> +               u32             vgic_eisr[2];   /* Saved only */
> +               unsigned long   vgic_eisr_bm[8 / sizeof(long)];
> +       };
> +       union {
> +               u32             vgic_elrsr[2];  /* Saved only */
> +               unsigned long   vgic_elrsr_bm[8 / sizeof(long)];
> +       };
>         u32             vgic_apr;
>         u32             vgic_lr[VGIC_V2_MAX_LRS];
>  };
> 
> And then use vgic_elrsr_bm in set_bit().
> 
> Admittedly a bit hacky, but fixes the alignment issue while still
> retaining sane code for ARM.
> If anyone knows a good fix for that "8 / sizeof(long)" kludge, I am all
> ears.

	u32		vgic_eisr[2] __aligned(BITS_PER_LONG/8);
	u32		vgic_elrsr[2] __aligned(BITS_PER_LONG/8);

Still wouldn't fix big-endian, however, and it's not necessary if we go
for set_bit as in Christoffer's original patch.

Paolo



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