[PATCH v3 2/2] KVM: arm64: Fix exclusive limit for IPA size

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Thu Mar 11 10:00:16 GMT 2021


When registering a memslot, we check the size and location of that
memslot against the IPA size to ensure that we can provide guest
access to the whole of the memory.

Unfortunately, this check rejects memslot that end-up at the exact
limit of the addressing capability for a given IPA size. For example,
it refuses the creation of a 2GB memslot at 0x8000000 with a 32bit
IPA space.

Fix it by relaxing the check to accept a memslot reaching the
limit of the IPA space.

Fixes: e55cac5bf2a9 ("kvm: arm/arm64: Prepare for VM specific stage2 translations")
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 77cb2d28f2a4..8711894db8c2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1312,8 +1312,7 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 	 * Prevent userspace from creating a memory region outside of the IPA
 	 * space addressable by the KVM guest IPA space.
 	 */
-	if (memslot->base_gfn + memslot->npages >=
-	    (kvm_phys_size(kvm) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
+	if ((memslot->base_gfn + memslot->npages) > (kvm_phys_size(kvm) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	mmap_read_lock(current->mm);
-- 
2.29.2




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