linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 STABLE] KVM: MMU: Do not treat ZONE

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Date:   Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:14:50 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 STABLE] KVM: MMU: Do not treat ZONE_DEVICE pages as
 being reserved

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:04:56AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> [ Upstream commit a78986aae9b2988f8493f9f65a587ee433e83bc3 ]
> 
> Explicitly exempt ZONE_DEVICE pages from kvm_is_reserved_pfn() and
> instead manually handle ZONE_DEVICE on a case-by-case basis.  For things
> like page refcounts, KVM needs to treat ZONE_DEVICE pages like normal
> pages, e.g. put pages grabbed via gup().  But for flows such as setting
> A/D bits or shifting refcounts for transparent huge pages, KVM needs to
> to avoid processing ZONE_DEVICE pages as the flows in question lack the
> underlying machinery for proper handling of ZONE_DEVICE pages.
> 
> This fixes a hang reported by Adam Borowski[*] in dev_pagemap_cleanup()
> when running a KVM guest backed with /dev/dax memory, as KVM straight up
> doesn't put any references to ZONE_DEVICE pages acquired by gup().
> 
> Note, Dan Williams proposed an alternative solution of doing put_page()
> on ZONE_DEVICE pages immediately after gup() in order to simplify the
> auditing needed to ensure is_zone_device_page() is called if and only if
> the backing device is pinned (via gup()).  But that approach would break
> kvm_vcpu_{un}map() as KVM requires the page to be pinned from map() 'til
> unmap() when accessing guest memory, unlike KVM's secondary MMU, which
> coordinates with mmu_notifier invalidations to avoid creating stale
> page references, i.e. doesn't rely on pages being pinned.
> 
> [*] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190919115547.GA17963@angband.pl
> 
> Reported-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
> Analyzed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings")
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> [sean: backport to 4.x; resolve conflict in mmu.c]

All 3 now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h