linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] s390x: mm: allow mixed page table types (2k and 4k)

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Message-ID: <a2ac7441-aea7-c844-6bb6-2496f353d5a4@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Jun 2017 14:44:52 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] s390x: mm: allow mixed page table types (2k and
 4k)

On 01.06.2017 13:39, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 05/29/2017 06:32 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> 
>>  	new = old = pgste_get_lock(ptep);
>>  	pgste_val(new) &= ~(PGSTE_GR_BIT | PGSTE_GC_BIT |
>> @@ -748,6 +764,11 @@ int reset_guest_reference_bit(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
>>  	ptep = get_locked_pte(mm, addr, &ptl);
>>  	if (unlikely(!ptep))
>>  		return -EFAULT;
>> +	if (!pgtable_has_pgste(mm, __pa(ptep))) {
>> +		pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
>> +		WARN_ONCE(true, "Guest address on page table without pgste");
> 
> All these WARN_ONCE. Is there a way how a malicious user can trigger this or is this checked
> everywhere and triggered would be indeed a bug?

Very good question I added these for testing purposes, but leaving the
WARN_ONCE here is wrong.

The user can create memslots with "wrong" memory. Whenever such memory
is linked into the gmap, we return -EFAULT. So we will only have page
table with "pgstes" in our GMAP at any time.

However, all these functions here go via memslots:

test_and_clear_guest_dirty
-> via memslot from memslot list

set_guest_storage_key
reset_guest_reference_bit
get_guest_storage_key
pgste_perform_essa
set_pgste_bits
get_pgste
->  come via gfn_to_hva() -> gfn_to_memslot() -> search_memslots -> via
memslot list


And then use the calculated host address to just walk the ordinary
process page tables (get_locked_pte) and not the pgste.

So simply returning -EFAULT here is the right thing to, dropping the
WARN_ONCE.

Thanks!

-- 

Thanks,

David