linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: Add helpers to consolidate gfn_to_pfn

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:20:41 +0000
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, Paolo Bonzini
 <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	syzbot+106a4f72b0474e1d1b33@...kaller.appspotmail.com, Paul Durrant
	 <paul@....org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: Add helpers to consolidate gfn_to_pfn_cache's
 page split check

On Tue, 2024-03-19 at 17:15 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Add a helper to check that the incoming length for a gfn_to_pfn_cache is
> valid with respect to the cache's GPA and/or HVA.  To avoid activating a
> cache with a bogus GPA, a future fix will fork the page split check in
> the inner refresh path into activate() and the public rerfresh() APIs, at
> which point KVM will check the length in three separate places.
> 
> Deliberately keep the "page offset" logic open coded, as the only other
> path that consumes the offset, __kvm_gpc_refresh(), already needs to
> differentiate between GPA-based and HVA-based caches, and it's not obvious
> that using a helper is a net positive in overall code readability.
> 
> Note, for GPA-based caches, this has a subtle side effect of using the GPA
> instead of the resolved HVA in the check() path, but that should be a nop
> as the HVA offset is derived from the GPA, i.e. the two offsets are
> identical, barring a KVM bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>


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