[PULL 07/13] kvm: arm/arm64: Fix race in resetting stage2 PGD

Christoffer Dall cdall at linaro.org
Thu May 18 02:47:16 PDT 2017


From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>

In kvm_free_stage2_pgd() we check the stage2 PGD before holding
the lock and proceed to take the lock if it is valid. And we unmap
the page tables, followed by releasing the lock. We reset the PGD
only after dropping this lock, which could cause a race condition
where another thread waiting on or even holding the lock, could
potentially see that the PGD is still valid and proceed to perform
a stage2 operation and later encounter a NULL PGD.

[223090.242280] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 00000040
[223090.262330] PC is at unmap_stage2_range+0x8c/0x428
[223090.262332] LR is at kvm_unmap_hva_handler+0x2c/0x3c
[223090.262531] Call trace:
[223090.262533] [<ffff0000080adb78>] unmap_stage2_range+0x8c/0x428
[223090.262535] [<ffff0000080adf40>] kvm_unmap_hva_handler+0x2c/0x3c
[223090.262537] [<ffff0000080ace2c>] handle_hva_to_gpa+0xb0/0x104
[223090.262539] [<ffff0000080af988>] kvm_unmap_hva+0x5c/0xbc
[223090.262543] [<ffff0000080a2478>]
kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_page+0x50/0x8c
[223090.262547] [<ffff0000082274f8>]
__mmu_notifier_invalidate_page+0x5c/0x84
[223090.262551] [<ffff00000820b700>] try_to_unmap_one+0x1d0/0x4a0
[223090.262553] [<ffff00000820c5c8>] rmap_walk+0x1cc/0x2e0
[223090.262555] [<ffff00000820c90c>] try_to_unmap+0x74/0xa4
[223090.262557] [<ffff000008230ce4>] migrate_pages+0x31c/0x5ac
[223090.262561] [<ffff0000081f869c>] compact_zone+0x3fc/0x7ac
[223090.262563] [<ffff0000081f8ae0>] compact_zone_order+0x94/0xb0
[223090.262564] [<ffff0000081f91c0>] try_to_compact_pages+0x108/0x290
[223090.262569] [<ffff0000081d5108>] __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x70/0x1ac
[223090.262571] [<ffff0000081d64a0>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x434/0x9f4
[223090.262572] [<ffff0000082256f0>] alloc_pages_vma+0x230/0x254
[223090.262574] [<ffff000008235e5c>] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x114/0x538
[223090.262576] [<ffff000008201bec>] handle_mm_fault+0xd40/0x17a4
[223090.262577] [<ffff0000081fb324>] __get_user_pages+0x12c/0x36c
[223090.262578] [<ffff0000081fb804>] get_user_pages_unlocked+0xa4/0x1b8
[223090.262579] [<ffff0000080a3ce8>] __gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x280/0x31c
[223090.262580] [<ffff0000080a3dd0>] gfn_to_pfn_prot+0x4c/0x5c
[223090.262582] [<ffff0000080af3f8>] kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x240/0x774
[223090.262584] [<ffff0000080b2bac>] handle_exit+0x11c/0x1ac
[223090.262586] [<ffff0000080ab99c>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x31c/0x648
[223090.262587] [<ffff0000080a1d78>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x378/0x768
[223090.262590] [<ffff00000825df5c>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x324/0x5a4
[223090.262591] [<ffff00000825e26c>] SyS_ioctl+0x90/0xa4
[223090.262595] [<ffff000008085d84>] el0_svc_naked+0x38/0x3c

This patch moves the stage2 PGD manipulation under the lock.

Reported-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
---
 virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
index 313ee64..909a1a7 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
@@ -829,22 +829,22 @@ void stage2_unmap_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
  * Walks the level-1 page table pointed to by kvm->arch.pgd and frees all
  * underlying level-2 and level-3 tables before freeing the actual level-1 table
  * and setting the struct pointer to NULL.
- *
- * Note we don't need locking here as this is only called when the VM is
- * destroyed, which can only be done once.
  */
 void kvm_free_stage2_pgd(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
-	if (kvm->arch.pgd == NULL)
-		return;
+	void *pgd = NULL;
 
 	spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
-	unmap_stage2_range(kvm, 0, KVM_PHYS_SIZE);
+	if (kvm->arch.pgd) {
+		unmap_stage2_range(kvm, 0, KVM_PHYS_SIZE);
+		pgd = kvm->arch.pgd;
+		kvm->arch.pgd = NULL;
+	}
 	spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 
 	/* Free the HW pgd, one page at a time */
-	free_pages_exact(kvm->arch.pgd, S2_PGD_SIZE);
-	kvm->arch.pgd = NULL;
+	if (pgd)
+		free_pages_exact(pgd, S2_PGD_SIZE);
 }
 
 static pud_t *stage2_get_pud(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
-- 
2.9.0




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