[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Correctly handle the mmio faulting

Keqian Zhu zhukeqian1 at huawei.com
Wed Apr 21 07:17:44 BST 2021


Hi Gavin,

On 2021/4/21 14:20, Gavin Shan wrote:
> Hi Keqian and Santosh,
> 
> On 4/21/21 12:59 PM, Keqian Zhu wrote:
>> On 2020/10/22 0:16, Santosh Shukla wrote:
>>> The Commit:6d674e28 introduces a notion to detect and handle the
>>> device mapping. The commit checks for the VM_PFNMAP flag is set
>>> in vma->flags and if set then marks force_pte to true such that
>>> if force_pte is true then ignore the THP function check
>>> (/transparent_hugepage_adjust()).
>>>
>>> There could be an issue with the VM_PFNMAP flag setting and checking.
>>> For example consider a case where the mdev vendor driver register's
>>> the vma_fault handler named vma_mmio_fault(), which maps the
>>> host MMIO region in-turn calls remap_pfn_range() and maps
>>> the MMIO's vma space. Where, remap_pfn_range implicitly sets
>>> the VM_PFNMAP flag into vma->flags.
>> Could you give the name of the mdev vendor driver that triggers this issue?
>> I failed to find one according to your description. Thanks.
>>
> 
> I think it would be fixed in driver side to set VM_PFNMAP in
> its mmap() callback (call_mmap()), like vfio PCI driver does.
> It means it won't be delayed until page fault is issued and
> remap_pfn_range() is called. It's determined from the beginning
> that the vma associated the mdev vendor driver is serving as
> PFN remapping purpose. So the vma should be populated completely,
> including the VM_PFNMAP flag before it becomes visible to user
> space.
> 
> The example can be found from vfio driver in drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c:
>     vfio_pci_mmap:       VM_PFNMAP is set for the vma
>     vfio_pci_mmap_fault: remap_pfn_range() is called
Right. I have discussed the above with Marc. I want to find the driver
to fix it. However, AFAICS, there is no driver matches the description...

Thanks,
Keqian

> 
> Thanks,
> Gavin
> 
>>>
>>> Now lets assume a mmio fault handing flow where guest first access
>>> the MMIO region whose 2nd stage translation is not present.
>>> So that results to arm64-kvm hypervisor executing guest abort handler,
>>> like below:
>>>
>>> kvm_handle_guest_abort() -->
>>>   user_mem_abort()--> {
>>>
>>>      ...
>>>      0. checks the vma->flags for the VM_PFNMAP.
>>>      1. Since VM_PFNMAP flag is not yet set so force_pte _is_ false;
>>>      2. gfn_to_pfn_prot() -->
>>>          __gfn_to_pfn_memslot() -->
>>>              fixup_user_fault() -->
>>>                  handle_mm_fault()-->
>>>                      __do_fault() -->
>>>                         vma_mmio_fault() --> // vendor's mdev fault handler
>>>                          remap_pfn_range()--> // Here sets the VM_PFNMAP
>>>                         flag into vma->flags.
>>>      3. Now that force_pte is set to false in step-2),
>>>         will execute transparent_hugepage_adjust() func and
>>>         that lead to Oops [4].
>>>   }
>>>
>>> The proposition is to check is_iomap flag before executing the THP
>>> function transparent_hugepage_adjust().
>>>
>>> [4] THP Oops:
>>>> pc: kvm_is_transparent_hugepage+0x18/0xb0
>>>> ...
>>>> ...
>>>> user_mem_abort+0x340/0x9b8
>>>> kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x248/0x468
>>>> handle_exit+0x150/0x1b0
>>>> kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x4d4/0x778
>>>> kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x3c0/0x858
>>>> ksys_ioctl+0x84/0xb8
>>>> __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x28/0x38
>>>
>>> Tested on Huawei Kunpeng Taishan-200 arm64 server, Using VFIO-mdev device.
>>> Linux tip: 583090b1
>>>
>>> Fixes: 6d674e28 ("KVM: arm/arm64: Properly handle faulting of device mappings")
>>> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <sashukla at nvidia.com>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>>> index 3d26b47..ff15357 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>>> @@ -1947,7 +1947,7 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>>>        * If we are not forced to use page mapping, check if we are
>>>        * backed by a THP and thus use block mapping if possible.
>>>        */
>>> -    if (vma_pagesize == PAGE_SIZE && !force_pte)
>>> +    if (vma_pagesize == PAGE_SIZE && !force_pte && !is_iomap(flags))
>>>           vma_pagesize = transparent_hugepage_adjust(memslot, hva,
>>>                                  &pfn, &fault_ipa);
>>>       if (writable)
>>>
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