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Message-ID: <20190502125001.GB11584@sasha-vm>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 08:50:01 -0400
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
yuzenghui@...wei.com, christoffer.dall@....com,
marc.zyngier@....com, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 29/98] KVM: arm/arm64: Enforce PTE mappings
at stage2 when needed
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:27:26AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>Hi Sasha,
>
>On 04/22/2019 08:40 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
>>
>>[ Upstream commit a80868f398554842b14d07060012c06efb57c456 ]
>>
>>commit 6794ad5443a2118 ("KVM: arm/arm64: Fix unintended stage 2 PMD mappings")
>>made the checks to skip huge mappings, stricter. However it introduced
>>a bug where we still use huge mappings, ignoring the flag to
>>use PTE mappings, by not reseting the vma_pagesize to PAGE_SIZE.
>>
>>Also, the checks do not cover the PUD huge pages, that was
>>under review during the same period. This patch fixes both
>>the issues.
>>
>>Fixes : 6794ad5443a2118 ("KVM: arm/arm64: Fix unintended stage 2 PMD mappings")
>>Reported-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>
>>Cc: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>
>>Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>
>>Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
>>Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
>>Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin (Microsoft) <sashal@...nel.org>
>
>Please be aware that we need a follow up fix for this patch to fix the
>problem for THP backed memory.
>
>http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2019-April/645324.html
>
>
>It should appear upstream soon.
Since it's not upstream yet, I'll drop this patch for now and queue it
for a later release.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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