[PULL 18/29] arm/arm64: KVM: Enforce Break-Before-Make on Stage-2 page tables

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Wed May 11 06:30:11 PDT 2016


From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

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.

Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
---
 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 42eefab..74b5d19 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -910,11 +910,14 @@ 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;
 }
 
@@ -963,12 +966,14 @@ 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;
 }
 
-- 
2.1.2.330.g565301e.dirty




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