linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 7/7] KVM: arm64: Use less bits for hyp

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue,  8 Jun 2021 11:45:18 +0000
From:   Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
To:     maz@...nel.org, will@...nel.org, james.morse@....com,
        alexandru.elisei@....com, catalin.marinas@....com,
        suzuki.poulose@....com
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        kernel-team@...roid.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 7/7] KVM: arm64: Use less bits for hyp_page refcount

The hyp_page refcount is currently encoded on 4 bytes even though we
never need to count that many objects in a page. Make it 2 bytes to save
some space in the vmemmap.

As overflows are more likely to happen as well, make sure to catch those
with a BUG in the increment function.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/page_alloc.c     | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h
index 3fe34fa30ea4..592b7edb3edb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
 struct hyp_page {
-	unsigned int refcount;
+	unsigned short refcount;
 	unsigned short order;
 };
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/page_alloc.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/page_alloc.c
index be07055bbc10..41fc25bdfb34 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/page_alloc.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/page_alloc.c
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ static struct hyp_page *__hyp_extract_page(struct hyp_pool *pool,
 
 static inline void hyp_page_ref_inc(struct hyp_page *p)
 {
+	BUG_ON(p->refcount == USHRT_MAX);
 	p->refcount++;
 }
 
-- 
2.32.0.rc1.229.g3e70b5a671-goog