[PATCH 07/10] KVM: arm/arm64: Preserve Exec permission across R/W permission faults

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Mon Oct 9 08:20:29 PDT 2017


So far, we loose the Exec property whenever we take permission
faults, as we always reconstruct the PTE/PMD from scratch. This
can be counter productive as we can end-up with the following
fault sequence:

	X -> RO -> ROX -> RW -> RWX

Instead, we can lookup the existing PTE/PMD and clear the XN bit in the
new entry if it was already cleared in the old one, leadig to a much
nicer fault sequence:

	X -> ROX -> RWX

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h   | 10 ++++++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 10 ++++++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c               | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
index bf76150aad5f..ad442d86c23e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
@@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ static inline bool kvm_s2pte_readonly(pte_t *pte)
 	return (pte_val(*pte) & L_PTE_S2_RDWR) == L_PTE_S2_RDONLY;
 }
 
+static inline bool kvm_s2pte_exec(pte_t *pte)
+{
+	return !(pte_val(*pte) & L_PTE_XN);
+}
+
 static inline void kvm_set_s2pmd_readonly(pmd_t *pmd)
 {
 	pmd_val(*pmd) = (pmd_val(*pmd) & ~L_PMD_S2_RDWR) | L_PMD_S2_RDONLY;
@@ -117,6 +122,11 @@ static inline bool kvm_s2pmd_readonly(pmd_t *pmd)
 	return (pmd_val(*pmd) & L_PMD_S2_RDWR) == L_PMD_S2_RDONLY;
 }
 
+static inline bool kvm_s2pmd_exec(pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+	return !(pmd_val(*pmd) & PMD_SECT_XN);
+}
+
 static inline bool kvm_page_empty(void *ptr)
 {
 	struct page *ptr_page = virt_to_page(ptr);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
index 60c420a5ac0d..e7af74b8b51a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
@@ -203,6 +203,11 @@ static inline bool kvm_s2pte_readonly(pte_t *pte)
 	return (pte_val(*pte) & PTE_S2_RDWR) == PTE_S2_RDONLY;
 }
 
+static inline bool kvm_s2pte_exec(pte_t *pte)
+{
+	return !(pte_val(*pte) & PTE_S2_XN);
+}
+
 static inline void kvm_set_s2pmd_readonly(pmd_t *pmd)
 {
 	kvm_set_s2pte_readonly((pte_t *)pmd);
@@ -213,6 +218,11 @@ static inline bool kvm_s2pmd_readonly(pmd_t *pmd)
 	return kvm_s2pte_readonly((pte_t *)pmd);
 }
 
+static inline bool kvm_s2pmd_exec(pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+	return !(pmd_val(*pmd) & PMD_S2_XN);
+}
+
 static inline bool kvm_page_empty(void *ptr)
 {
 	struct page *ptr_page = virt_to_page(ptr);
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
index 1911fadde88b..ccc6106764a6 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
@@ -926,6 +926,17 @@ static int stage2_set_pmd_huge(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static pte_t *stage2_get_pte(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t addr)
+{
+	pmd_t *pmdp;
+
+	pmdp = stage2_get_pmd(kvm, NULL, addr);
+	if (!pmdp || pmd_none(*pmdp))
+		return NULL;
+
+	return pte_offset_kernel(pmdp, addr);
+}
+
 static int stage2_set_pte(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
 			  phys_addr_t addr, const pte_t *new_pte,
 			  unsigned long flags)
@@ -1407,6 +1418,13 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 		if (exec_fault) {
 			new_pmd = kvm_s2pmd_mkexec(new_pmd);
 			coherent_icache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PMD_SIZE);
+		} else if (fault_status == FSC_PERM) {
+			/* Preserve execute if XN was already cleared */
+			pmd_t *old_pmdp = stage2_get_pmd(kvm, NULL, fault_ipa);
+
+			if (old_pmdp && pmd_present(*old_pmdp) &&
+			    kvm_s2pmd_exec(old_pmdp))
+				new_pmd = kvm_s2pmd_mkexec(new_pmd);
 		}
 
 		ret = stage2_set_pmd_huge(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pmd);
@@ -1425,6 +1443,13 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 		if (exec_fault) {
 			new_pte = kvm_s2pte_mkexec(new_pte);
 			coherent_icache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PAGE_SIZE);
+		} else if (fault_status == FSC_PERM) {
+			/* Preserve execute if XN was already cleared */
+			pte_t *old_ptep = stage2_get_pte(kvm, fault_ipa);
+
+			if (old_ptep && pte_present(*old_ptep) &&
+			    kvm_s2pte_exec(old_ptep))
+				new_pte = kvm_s2pte_mkexec(new_pte);
 		}
 
 		ret = stage2_set_pte(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pte, flags);
-- 
2.14.1




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