[PATCH] arm/arm64: KVM: Enforce Break-Before-Make on Stage-2 page tables

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Apr 28 09:07:05 PDT 2016


On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 04:16:31PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> The ARM architecture mandates that when changing a page table entry
> from a valid entry to another valid entry, an invalid entry is first
> written, TLB invalidated, and only then the new entry being written.
> 
> The current code doesn't respect this, directly writing the new
> entry and only then invalidating TLBs. Let's fix it up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

FWIW, this looks correct to me.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

Mark.

> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 17 +++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> index 58dbd5c..edf1cd1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -893,11 +893,14 @@ static int stage2_set_pmd_huge(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache
>  	VM_BUG_ON(pmd_present(*pmd) && pmd_pfn(*pmd) != pmd_pfn(*new_pmd));
>  
>  	old_pmd = *pmd;
> -	kvm_set_pmd(pmd, *new_pmd);
> -	if (pmd_present(old_pmd))
> +	if (pmd_present(old_pmd)) {
> +		pmd_clear(pmd);
>  		kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(kvm, addr);
> -	else
> +	} else {
>  		get_page(virt_to_page(pmd));
> +	}
> +
> +	kvm_set_pmd(pmd, *new_pmd);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -946,12 +949,14 @@ static int stage2_set_pte(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
>  
>  	/* Create 2nd stage page table mapping - Level 3 */
>  	old_pte = *pte;
> -	kvm_set_pte(pte, *new_pte);
> -	if (pte_present(old_pte))
> +	if (pte_present(old_pte)) {
> +		kvm_set_pte(pte, __pte(0));
>  		kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(kvm, addr);
> -	else
> +	} else {
>  		get_page(virt_to_page(pte));
> +	}
>  
> +	kvm_set_pte(pte, *new_pte);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 
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