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Message-Id: <faf2d7cf-9d75-e921-e362-252fccacfa53@de.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:15:38 +0200
From:   Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:     Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     david@...hat.com, cohuck@...hat.com, frankja@...ux.ibm.com,
        heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, gor@...ux.ibm.com,
        imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: s390: kvm_s390_vm_start_migration: check
 dirty_bitmap before using it as target for memset()



On 10.09.19 15:02, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> If userspace doesn't set KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES on memslot before calling
> kvm_s390_vm_start_migration(), kernel will oops with:
> 
>   Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
>   Failing address: 0000000000000000 TEID: 0000000000000483
>   Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
>   AS:0000000002a2000b R2:00000001bff8c00b R3:00000001bff88007 S:00000001bff91000 P:000000000000003d
>   Oops: 0004 ilc:2 [#1] SMP
>   ...
>   Call Trace:
>   ([<001fffff804ec552>] kvm_s390_vm_set_attr+0x347a/0x3828 [kvm])
>    [<001fffff804ecfc0>] kvm_arch_vm_ioctl+0x6c0/0x1998 [kvm]
>    [<001fffff804b67e4>] kvm_vm_ioctl+0x51c/0x11a8 [kvm]
>    [<00000000008ba572>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x1d2/0xe58
>    [<00000000008bb284>] ksys_ioctl+0x8c/0xb8
>    [<00000000008bb2e2>] sys_ioctl+0x32/0x40
>    [<000000000175552c>] system_call+0x2b8/0x2d8
>   INFO: lockdep is turned off.
>   Last Breaking-Event-Address:
>    [<0000000000dbaf60>] __memset+0xc/0xa0
> 
> due to ms->dirty_bitmap being NULL, which might crash the host.
> 
> Make sure that ms->dirty_bitmap is set before using it or
> print a warning and return -ENIVAL otherwise.
> 
> Fixes: afdad61615cc ("KVM: s390: Fix storage attributes migration with memory slots")
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>
> ---
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.19+
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>

It also matches Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.txt which already allows -EINVAL. 
> 
> v2:
>    - drop WARN()
> 
>  arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> index f329dcb3f44c..2a40cd3e40b4 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> @@ -1018,6 +1018,8 @@ static int kvm_s390_vm_start_migration(struct kvm *kvm)
>  	/* mark all the pages in active slots as dirty */
>  	for (slotnr = 0; slotnr < slots->used_slots; slotnr++) {
>  		ms = slots->memslots + slotnr;
> +		if (!ms->dirty_bitmap)
> +			return -EINVAL;
>  		/*
>  		 * The second half of the bitmap is only used on x86,
>  		 * and would be wasted otherwise, so we put it to good
>