[PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: add WARN_ON if size is not PAGE_SIZE aligned in unmap_stage2_range
Suzuki K Poulose
Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Thu May 17 01:17:44 PDT 2018
Hi Jia,
On 17/05/18 07:11, Jia He wrote:
> I ever met a panic under memory pressure tests(start 20 guests and run
> memhog in the host).
Please avoid using "I" in the commit description and preferably stick to
an objective description.
>
> The root cause might be what I fixed at [1]. But from arm kvm points of
> view, it would be better we caught the exception earlier and clearer.
>
> If the size is not PAGE_SIZE aligned, unmap_stage2_range might unmap the
> wrong(more or less) page range. Hence it caused the "BUG: Bad page
> state"
I don't see why we should ever panic with a "positive" size value. Anyways,
the unmap requests must be in units of pages. So this check might be useful.
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/3/1042
>
> Signed-off-by: jia.he at hxt-semitech.com
> ---
> virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> index 7f6a944..8dac311 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> @@ -297,6 +297,8 @@ static void unmap_stage2_range(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t start, u64 size)
> phys_addr_t next;
>
> assert_spin_locked(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> + WARN_ON(size & ~PAGE_MASK);
> +
> pgd = kvm->arch.pgd + stage2_pgd_index(addr);
> do {
> /*
>
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