[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Don't inherit exec permission across page-table levels

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Wed Jul 22 09:15:10 EDT 2020


If a stage-2 page-table contains an executable, read-only mapping at the
pte level (e.g. due to dirty logging being enabled), a subsequent write
fault to the same page which tries to install a larger block mapping
(e.g. due to dirty logging having been disabled) will erroneously inherit
the exec permission and consequently skip I-cache invalidation for the
rest of the block.

Ensure that exec permission is only inherited by write faults when the
new mapping is of the same size as the existing one. A subsequent
instruction abort will result in I-cache invalidation for the entire
block mapping.

Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---

Found by code inspection, rather than something actually going wrong.

 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 8c0035cab6b6..69dc36d1d486 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ static bool stage2_get_leaf_entry(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t addr,
 	return true;
 }
 
-static bool stage2_is_exec(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t addr)
+static bool stage2_is_exec(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t addr, unsigned long sz)
 {
 	pud_t *pudp;
 	pmd_t *pmdp;
@@ -1338,9 +1338,9 @@ static bool stage2_is_exec(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t addr)
 		return false;
 
 	if (pudp)
-		return kvm_s2pud_exec(pudp);
+		return sz == PUD_SIZE && kvm_s2pud_exec(pudp);
 	else if (pmdp)
-		return kvm_s2pmd_exec(pmdp);
+		return sz == PMD_SIZE && kvm_s2pmd_exec(pmdp);
 	else
 		return kvm_s2pte_exec(ptep);
 }
@@ -1958,7 +1958,8 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 	 * execute permissions, and we preserve whatever we have.
 	 */
 	needs_exec = exec_fault ||
-		(fault_status == FSC_PERM && stage2_is_exec(kvm, fault_ipa));
+		(fault_status == FSC_PERM &&
+		 stage2_is_exec(kvm, fault_ipa, vma_pagesize));
 
 	if (vma_pagesize == PUD_SIZE) {
 		pud_t new_pud = kvm_pfn_pud(pfn, mem_type);
-- 
2.28.0.rc0.105.gf9edc3c819-goog




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