[PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: Signal SIGBUS when stage2 discovers hwpoison memory

Punit Agrawal punit.agrawal at arm.com
Mon Mar 27 04:20:56 PDT 2017


Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 04:07:27PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
>> Once we enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE on arm64[0], notifications for
>> broken memory can call memory_failure() in mm/memory-failure.c to deliver
>> SIGBUS to any user space process using the page, and notify all the
>> in-kernel users.
>> 
>> If the page corresponded with guest memory, KVM will unmap this page
>> from its stage2 page tables. The user space process that allocated
>> this memory may have never touched this page in which case it may not
>> be mapped meaning SIGBUS won't be delivered.
>> 
>> When this happens KVM discovers pfn == KVM_PFN_ERR_HWPOISON when it
>> comes to process the stage2 fault.
>> 
>> Do as x86 does, and deliver the SIGBUS when we discover
>> KVM_PFN_ERR_HWPOISON. Use the stage2 mapping size as the si_addr_lsb
>> as this matches the user space mapping size.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
>> CC: gengdongjiu <gengdj.1984 at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  Without this patch both kvmtool and Qemu exit as the KVM_RUN ioctl() returns
>>  EFAULT.
>>  QEMU: error: kvm run failed Bad address
>>  LVKM: KVM_RUN failed: Bad address
>> 
>>  With this patch both kvmtool and Qemu receive SIGBUS ... and then exit.
>>  In the future Qemu can use this signal to notify the guest, for more details
>>  see hwpoison[1].
>> 
>>  [0] https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg560009.html
>>  [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
>> 
>> 
>>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>> index 962616fd4ddd..9d1aa294e88f 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>> @@ -20,8 +20,10 @@
>>  #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
>>  #include <linux/io.h>
>>  #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
>> +#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
>>  #include <trace/events/kvm.h>
>>  #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
>> +#include <asm/siginfo.h>
>>  #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
>>  #include <asm/kvm_arm.h>
>>  #include <asm/kvm_mmu.h>
>> @@ -1237,6 +1239,23 @@ static void coherent_cache_guest_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, kvm_pfn_t pfn,
>>  	__coherent_cache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, size);
>>  }
>>  
>> +static void kvm_send_hwpoison_signal(unsigned long address, bool hugetlb)
>> +{
>> +	siginfo_t info;
>> +
>> +	info.si_signo   = SIGBUS;
>> +	info.si_errno   = 0;
>> +	info.si_code    = BUS_MCEERR_AR;
>> +	info.si_addr    = (void __user *)address;
>> +
>> +	if (hugetlb)
>> +		info.si_addr_lsb = PMD_SHIFT;
>> +	else
>> +		info.si_addr_lsb = PAGE_SHIFT;
>> +
>> +	send_sig_info(SIGBUS, &info, current);
>> +}
>> +
>>  static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>>  			  struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, unsigned long hva,
>>  			  unsigned long fault_status)
>> @@ -1306,6 +1325,10 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>>  	smp_rmb();
>>  
>>  	pfn = gfn_to_pfn_prot(kvm, gfn, write_fault, &writable);
>> +	if (pfn == KVM_PFN_ERR_HWPOISON) {
>> +		kvm_send_hwpoison_signal(hva, hugetlb);
>
> The way this is called means that we'll only notify userspace of a huge
> mapping if userspace is mapping hugetlbfs, and not because the stage2
> mapping may or may not have used transparent huge pages when the error
> was discovered.  Is this the desired semantics?

I think so.

AFAIUI, transparent hugepages are split before being poisoned while all
the underlying pages of a hugepage are poisoned together, i.e., no
splitting.

>
> Also notice that the hva is not necessarily aligned to the beginning of
> the huge page, so can we be giving userspace wrong information by
> pointing in the middle of a huge page and telling it there was an
> address error in the size of the PMD ?
>

I could be reading it wrong but I think we are fine here - the address
(hva) is the location that faulted. And the lsb indicates the least
significant bit of the faulting address (See man sigaction(2)). The
receiver of the signal is expected to use the address and lsb to workout
the extent of corruption.

Though I missed a subtlety while reviewing the patch before. The
reported lsb should be for the userspace hugepage mapping (i.e., hva)
and not for the stage 2.

So in the case of hugepages the value of lsb should be -

huge_page_shift(hstate_vma(vma))

as the kernel supports more than just PMD size hugepages.

Does that make sense?

In light of this, I'd like to retract my Reviewed-by tag for this
version of the patch as I believe we'll need to change the lsb
reporting.

Thanks,
Punit

>> +		return 0;
>> +	}
>>  	if (is_error_noslot_pfn(pfn))
>>  		return -EFAULT;
>>  
>> -- 
>> 2.10.1
>> 
>
> Thanks,
> -Christoffer



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