linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 72/85] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix per-cpu counter corruption on 32-bit builds

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Date:   Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:30:45 +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, Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 72/85] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix per-cpu counter corruption on 32-bit builds

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>

commit d5aaad6f83420efb8357ac8e11c868708b22d0a9 upstream.

Take a signed 'long' instead of an 'unsigned long' for the number of
pages to add/subtract to the total number of pages used by the MMU.  This
fixes a zero-extension bug on 32-bit kernels that effectively corrupts
the per-cpu counter used by the shrinker.

Per-cpu counters take a signed 64-bit value on both 32-bit and 64-bit
kernels, whereas kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages() takes an unsigned long and thus
an unsigned 32-bit value on 32-bit kernels.  As a result, the value used
to adjust the per-cpu counter is zero-extended (unsigned -> signed), not
sign-extended (signed -> signed), and so KVM's intended -1 gets morphed to
4294967295 and effectively corrupts the counter.

This was found by a staggering amount of sheer dumb luck when running
kvm-unit-tests on a 32-bit KVM build.  The shrinker just happened to kick
in while running tests and do_shrink_slab() logged an error about trying
to free a negative number of objects.  The truly lucky part is that the
kernel just happened to be a slightly stale build, as the shrinker no
longer yells about negative objects as of commit 18bb473e5031 ("mm:
vmscan: shrink deferred objects proportional to priority").

 vmscan: shrink_slab: mmu_shrink_scan+0x0/0x210 [kvm] negative objects to delete nr=-858993460

Fixes: bc8a3d8925a8 ("kvm: mmu: Fix overflow on kvm mmu page limit calculation")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Message-Id: <20210804214609.1096003-1-seanjc@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2143,7 +2143,7 @@ static int is_empty_shadow_page(u64 *spt
  * aggregate version in order to make the slab shrinker
  * faster
  */
-static inline void kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long nr)
+static inline void kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm, long nr)
 {
 	kvm->arch.n_used_mmu_pages += nr;
 	percpu_counter_add(&kvm_total_used_mmu_pages, nr);