[PATCH] kvm: arm: LPAE: Incorrect device to IPA mapping

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Wed Sep 16 06:43:49 PDT 2015


On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:33:37AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Hi Marek,
> 
> On 16/09/15 11:04, marek.majtyka wrote:
> > From: Marek Majtyka <marek.majtyka at tieto.com>
> > 
> > A critical bug has been found in device memory stage1 translation for machines
> > with more then 4GB of RAM. Once vm_pgoff size is smaller then pa (which is true
> > for LPAE case, u32 and u64 respectively) some more significant bits of pa may
> > be lost as a shift operation is performed on u32 and later cast onto u64.
> > 
> > Example: vm_pgoff(u32)=0x00210030, PAGE_SHIFT=12
> >         expected pa(u64):   0x0000002010030000
> >         produced pa(u64):   0x0000000010030000
> > 
> > A suggested fix is changing the order of operations (casting first onto
> > phys_addr_t and then shifting), which works for both alternatives
> > (with and without LPAE).
> 
> Well, you can't use KVM without LPAE, so that's a moot point. Also, the
> issue is when you place things above 4GB, not when you have more than
> 4GB of RAM (I cannot see how you allocate that amount of memory from
> userspace on 32bit).
> 
> > 
> > A bug has been found, fixed and tested on kernel v3.19. However, it seems to be
> > valid for most, if not all, newer version starting from v3.18.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marek Majtyka <marek.majtyka at tieto.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> > index 1366625..602bc63 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> > @@ -1408,7 +1408,8 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
> >  		if (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) {
> >  			gpa_t gpa = mem->guest_phys_addr +
> >  				    (vm_start - mem->userspace_addr);
> > -			phys_addr_t pa = (vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) +
> > +			phys_addr_t pa =
> > +				((phys_addr_t) vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) +
> >  					 vm_start - vma->vm_start;
> >  
> >  			ret = kvm_phys_addr_ioremap(kvm, gpa, pa,
> > 
> 
> Looks perfectly valid to me (the formatting is horrible, but I can fix
> that - I can only guess you've followed checkpatch's silly advise).
> 
> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> 
> Christoffer: if you're OK with that one, I'll add it to the next batch
> of fixes.
> 
Yup, looks good to me.

-Christoffer



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