linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix possible race when shadowing region 3 tables

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Message-Id: <20200403153050.20569-4-david@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri,  3 Apr 2020 17:30:48 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix possible race when shadowing region 3 tables

We have to properly retry again by returning -EINVAL immediately in case
somebody else instantiated the table concurrently. We missed to add the
goto in this function only. The code now matches the other, similar
shadowing functions.

We are overwriting an existing region 2 table entry. All allocated pages
are added to the crst_list to be freed later, so they are not lost
forever. However, when unshadowing the region 2 table, we wouldn't trigger
unshadowing of the original shadowed region 3 table that we replaced. It
would get unshadowed when the original region 3 table is modified. As it's
not connected to the page table hierarchy anymore, it's not going to get
used anymore. However, for a limited time, this page table will stick
around, so it's in some sense a temporary memory leak.

Identified by manual code inspection. I don't think this classifies as
stable material.

Fixes: 998f637cc4b9 ("s390/mm: avoid races on region/segment/page table shadowing")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
 arch/s390/mm/gmap.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/gmap.c b/arch/s390/mm/gmap.c
index b93dd54b234a..24ef30fb0833 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/gmap.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/gmap.c
@@ -1844,6 +1844,7 @@ int gmap_shadow_r3t(struct gmap *sg, unsigned long saddr, unsigned long r3t,
 		goto out_free;
 	} else if (*table & _REGION_ENTRY_ORIGIN) {
 		rc = -EAGAIN;		/* Race with shadow */
+		goto out_free;
 	}
 	crst_table_init(s_r3t, _REGION3_ENTRY_EMPTY);
 	/* mark as invalid as long as the parent table is not protected */
-- 
2.25.1