linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.7 345/376] virtio-balloon: Disable free page reporting if page poison reporting is not enabled

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Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:34:23 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.7 345/376] virtio-balloon: Disable free page reporting if page poison reporting is not enabled

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>

commit fb69c2c896fc8289b0d9e2c0791472e7cd398bca upstream.

We should disable free page reporting if page poisoning is enabled but we
cannot report it via the balloon interface. This way we can avoid the
possibility of corrupting guest memory. Normally the page poisoning feature
should always be present when free page reporting is enabled on the
hypervisor, however this allows us to correctly handle a case of the
virtio-balloon device being possibly misconfigured.

Fixes: 5d757c8d518d ("virtio-balloon: add support for providing free page reports to host")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200508173732.17877.85060.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -1107,11 +1107,18 @@ static int virtballoon_restore(struct vi

 static int virtballoon_validate(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
-	/* Tell the host whether we care about poisoned pages. */
+	/*
+	 * Inform the hypervisor that our pages are poisoned or
+	 * initialized. If we cannot do that then we should disable
+	 * page reporting as it could potentially change the contents
+	 * of our free pages.
+	 */
 	if (!want_init_on_free() &&
 	    (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY) ||
 	     !page_poisoning_enabled()))
 		__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON);
+	else if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON))
+		__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_REPORTING);

 	__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM);
 	return 0;