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Message-ID: <20190320101126.11ff63af@why.wild-wind.fr.eu.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:11:26 +0000
From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Cc: <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
<kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu>, <will.deacon@....com>,
<catalin.marinas@....com>, <james.morse@....com>,
<julien.thierry@....com>, <wanghaibin.wang@...wei.com>,
<lious.lilei@...ilicon.com>, <lishuo1@...ilicon.com>,
<zhengxiang9@...wei.com>, <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
<christoffer.dall@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: arm: Fix handling of stage2 huge mappings
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:44:38 +0000
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com> wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> On 20/03/2019 08:15, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Hi Suzuki,
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:11:08 +0000,
> > Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com> wrote:
> >>
> >> We rely on the mmu_notifier call backs to handle the split/merge
> >> of huge pages and thus we are guaranteed that, while creating a
> >> block mapping, either the entire block is unmapped at stage2 or it
> >> is missing permission.
> >>
> >> However, we miss a case where the block mapping is split for dirty
> >> logging case and then could later be made block mapping, if we cancel the
> >> dirty logging. This not only creates inconsistent TLB entries for
> >> the pages in the the block, but also leakes the table pages for
> >> PMD level.
> >>
> >> Handle this corner case for the huge mappings at stage2 by
> >> unmapping the non-huge mapping for the block. This could potentially
> >> release the upper level table. So we need to restart the table walk
> >> once we unmap the range.
> >>
> >> Fixes : ad361f093c1e31d ("KVM: ARM: Support hugetlbfs backed huge pages")
> >> Reported-by: Zheng Xiang <zhengxiang9@...wei.com>
> >> Cc: Zheng Xiang <zhengxiang9@...wei.com>
> >> Cc: Zhengui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>
> >> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> >> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose ...
>
> >> +retry:
> >> pmd = stage2_get_pmd(kvm, cache, addr);
> >> VM_BUG_ON(!pmd);
> >> ...
>
> >> if (pmd_present(old_pmd)) {
> >> /*
> >> - * Multiple vcpus faulting on the same PMD entry, can
> >> - * lead to them sequentially updating the PMD with the
> >> - * same value. Following the break-before-make
> >> - * (pmd_clear() followed by tlb_flush()) process can
> >> - * hinder forward progress due to refaults generated
> >> - * on missing translations.
> >> + * If we already have PTE level mapping for this block,
> >> + * we must unmap it to avoid inconsistent TLB state and
> >> + * leaking the table page. We could end up in this situation
> >> + * if the memory slot was marked for dirty logging and was
> >> + * reverted, leaving PTE level mappings for the pages accessed
> >> + * during the period. So, unmap the PTE level mapping for this
> >> + * block and retry, as we could have released the upper level
> >> + * table in the process.
> >> *
> >> - * Skip updating the page table if the entry is
> >> - * unchanged.
> >> + * Normal THP split/merge follows mmu_notifier callbacks and do
> >> + * get handled accordingly.
> >> */
> >> - if (pmd_val(old_pmd) == pmd_val(*new_pmd))
> >> - return 0;
> >> -
> >> + if (!pmd_thp_or_huge(old_pmd)) {
> >> + unmap_stage2_range(kvm, addr & S2_PMD_MASK, S2_PMD_SIZE);
> >> + goto retry;
> >
> > This looks slightly dodgy. Doing this retry results in another call to
> > stage2_get_pmd(), which may or may not result in allocating a PUD. I
> > think this is safe as if we managed to get here, it means the whole
> > hierarchy was already present and nothing was allocated in the first
> > round.
> >
> > Somehow, I would feel more comfortable with just not even trying.
> > Unmap, don't fix the fault, let the vcpu come again for additional
> > punishment. But this is probably more invasive, as none of the
> > stage2_set_p*() return value is ever evaluated. Oh well.
> >
>
> Yes. The other option was to unmap_stage2_ptes() and get the page refcount
> on the new pmd. But that kind of makes it a bit difficult to follow the
> code.
>
> >> if (stage2_pud_present(kvm, old_pud)) {
> >> - stage2_pud_clear(kvm, pudp);
> >> - kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(kvm, addr);
> >> + /*
> >> + * If we already have table level mapping for this block, unmap
> >> + * the range for this block and retry.
> >> + */
> >> + if (!stage2_pud_huge(kvm, old_pud)) {
> >> + unmap_stage2_range(kvm, addr & S2_PUD_MASK, S2_PUD_SIZE);
> >
> > This broke 32bit. I've added the following hunk to fix it:
>
> Grrr! Sorry about that.
>
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h
> > index de2089501b8b..b8f21088a744 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h
> > @@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ stage2_pmd_addr_end(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t addr, phys_addr_t end)
> > #define stage2_pmd_table_empty(kvm, pmdp) kvm_page_empty(pmdp)
> > #define stage2_pud_table_empty(kvm, pudp) false
> > > +#define S2_PUD_MASK PGDIR_MASK
> > +#define S2_PUD_SIZE PGDIR_SIZE
> > +
>
> We should really get rid of the S2_P{U/M}D_* definitions, as they are
> always the same as the host. The only thing that changes is the PGD size
> which varies according to the IPA and the concatenation.
>
> > static inline bool kvm_stage2_has_pud(struct kvm *kvm)
> > {
> > return false;
> >
> >> + goto retry;
> >> + } else {
> >> + WARN_ON_ONCE(pud_pfn(old_pud) != pud_pfn(*new_pudp));
> >> + stage2_pud_clear(kvm, pudp);
> >> + kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(kvm, addr);
> >> + }
> >
> > The 'else' line could go, and would make the code similar to the PMD path.
> >
>
> Yep. I think the pud_pfn() may not be defined for some configs, if the hugetlbfs
> is not selected on arm32. So, we should move them to kvm_pud_pfn() instead.
>
>
> >> } else {
> >> get_page(virt_to_page(pudp));
> >> }
> >> -- >> 2.7.4
> >>
> >
> > If you're OK with the above nits, I'll squash them into the patch.
>
> With the kvm_pud_pfn() changes, yes. Alternately, I could resend the updated
> patch, fixing the typo in Zenghui's name. Let me know.
Sure, feel free to send a fixed version. I'll drop the currently queued
patch.
Thanks,
M.
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