[PATCH] KVM: RISC-V: Retry fault if vma_lookup() results become invalid

David Matlack dmatlack at google.com
Fri Mar 17 14:11:06 PDT 2023


Read mmu_invalidate_seq before dropping the mmap_lock so that KVM can
detect if the results of vma_lookup() (e.g. vma_shift) become stale
before it acquires kvm->mmu_lock. This fixes a theoretical bug where a
VMA could be changed by userspace after vma_lookup() and before KVM
reads the mmu_invalidate_seq, causing KVM to install page table entries
based on a (possibly) no-longer-valid vma_shift.

Re-order the MMU cache top-up to earlier in user_mem_abort() so that it
is not done after KVM has read mmu_invalidate_seq (i.e. so as to avoid
inducing spurious fault retries).

It's unlikely that any sane userspace currently modifies VMAs in such a
way as to trigger this race. And even with directed testing I was unable
to reproduce it. But a sufficiently motivated host userspace might be
able to exploit this race.

Note KVM/ARM had the same bug and was fixed in a separate, near
identical patch (see Link).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20230313235454.2964067-1-dmatlack@google.com/
Fixes: 9955371cc014 ("RISC-V: KVM: Implement MMU notifiers")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack at google.com>
---
Note: Compile-tested only.

 arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
index 78211aed36fa..46d692995830 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -628,6 +628,13 @@ int kvm_riscv_gstage_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 			!(memslot->flags & KVM_MEM_READONLY)) ? true : false;
 	unsigned long vma_pagesize, mmu_seq;
 
+	/* We need minimum second+third level pages */
+	ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(pcache, gstage_pgd_levels);
+	if (ret) {
+		kvm_err("Failed to topup G-stage cache\n");
+		return ret;
+	}
+
 	mmap_read_lock(current->mm);
 
 	vma = vma_lookup(current->mm, hva);
@@ -648,6 +655,15 @@ int kvm_riscv_gstage_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 	if (vma_pagesize == PMD_SIZE || vma_pagesize == PUD_SIZE)
 		gfn = (gpa & huge_page_mask(hstate_vma(vma))) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
+	/*
+	 * Read mmu_invalidate_seq so that KVM can detect if the results of
+	 * vma_lookup() or gfn_to_pfn_prot() become stale priort to acquiring
+	 * kvm->mmu_lock.
+	 *
+	 * Rely on mmap_read_unlock() for an implicit smp_rmb(), which pairs
+	 * with the smp_wmb() in kvm_mmu_invalidate_end().
+	 */
+	mmu_seq = kvm->mmu_invalidate_seq;
 	mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
 
 	if (vma_pagesize != PUD_SIZE &&
@@ -657,15 +673,6 @@ int kvm_riscv_gstage_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
-	/* We need minimum second+third level pages */
-	ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(pcache, gstage_pgd_levels);
-	if (ret) {
-		kvm_err("Failed to topup G-stage cache\n");
-		return ret;
-	}
-
-	mmu_seq = kvm->mmu_invalidate_seq;
-
 	hfn = gfn_to_pfn_prot(kvm, gfn, is_write, &writable);
 	if (hfn == KVM_PFN_ERR_HWPOISON) {
 		send_sig_mceerr(BUS_MCEERR_AR, (void __user *)hva,

base-commit: eeac8ede17557680855031c6f305ece2378af326
-- 
2.40.0.rc2.332.ga46443480c-goog




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