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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 22:44:24 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org> Subject: [PATCH 4.4 39/58] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Dont lose hardware R/C bit updates in H_PROTECT 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org> commit f064a0de1579fabded8990bed93971e30deb9ecb upstream. The hashed page table MMU in POWER processors can update the R (reference) and C (change) bits in a HPTE at any time until the HPTE has been invalidated and the TLB invalidation sequence has completed. In kvmppc_h_protect, which implements the H_PROTECT hypercall, we read the HPTE, modify the second doubleword, invalidate the HPTE in memory, do the TLB invalidation sequence, and then write the modified value of the second doubleword back to memory. In doing so we could overwrite an R/C bit update done by hardware between when we read the HPTE and when the TLB invalidation completed. To fix this we re-read the second doubleword after the TLB invalidation and OR in the (possibly) new values of R and C. We can use an OR since hardware only ever sets R and C, never clears them. This race was found by code inspection. In principle this bug could cause occasional guest memory corruption under host memory pressure. Fixes: a8606e20e41a ("KVM: PPC: Handle some PAPR hcalls in the kernel", 2011-06-29) Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> --- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c @@ -653,6 +653,8 @@ long kvmppc_h_protect(struct kvm_vcpu *v HPTE_V_ABSENT); do_tlbies(kvm, &rb, 1, global_invalidates(kvm, flags), true); + /* Don't lose R/C bit updates done by hardware */ + r |= be64_to_cpu(hpte[1]) & (HPTE_R_R | HPTE_R_C); hpte[1] = cpu_to_be64(r); } }
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