[PATCH v3 0/2] kvm: arm/arm64: Fixes for race conditions
Suzuki K Poulose
suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue May 16 02:34:53 PDT 2017
The patches fixes race conditions in stage2 pgd accesses.
Patch 1 is a fix up for the patch which has already been pushed to
kvmarm/master.
Patch 2 fixes a case where stage2 PGD could be free'd when we release
the kvm->mmu_lock to prevent VCPU starvation.
Applies on kvmarm/master tree
Changes since V2:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-May/504401.html
- Patch 1 in V2 has been pushed to kvmarm/master. Added a fixup to the
original patch to make sure we don't use cached stage2 pgd.
- Patch 2: Handle cases where unmap_stage2_range may be called without
checking the validity of stage2 pgd.
Changes since v1:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-April/502867.html
- Dropped patch for fixing mmu_notifier race condition, which couldn't be
reproduced.
- Added reviewed-by from Christoffer
- Added new patch to fix another race condition
Suzuki K Poulose (2):
kvm: arm/arm64: Force reading uncached stage2 PGD
kvm: arm/arm64: Fix use after free of stage2 page table
virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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