[PATCH 5.10.y] KVM: arm64: Retry fault if vma_lookup() results become invalid

Bjoern Doebel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.kvmarm,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: David Matlack <[email protected]>

commit 13ec9308a85702af7c31f3638a2720863848a7f2 upstream.

Read mmu_invalidate_seq before dropping the mmap_lock so that KVM can
detect if the results of vma_lookup() (e.g. vma_shift) become stale
before it acquires kvm->mmu_lock. This fixes a theoretical bug where a
VMA could be changed by userspace after vma_lookup() and before KVM
reads the mmu_invalidate_seq, causing KVM to install page table entries
based on a (possibly) no-longer-valid vma_shift.

Re-order the MMU cache top-up to earlier in user_mem_abort() so that it
is not done after KVM has read mmu_invalidate_seq (i.e. so as to avoid
inducing spurious fault retries).

This bug has existed since KVM/ARM's inception. It's unlikely that any
sane userspace currently modifies VMAs in such a way as to trigger this
race. And even with directed testing I was unable to reproduce it. But a
sufficiently motivated host userspace might be able to exploit this
race.

Fixes: 94f8e6418d39 ("KVM: ARM: Handle guest faults in KVM")
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <[email protected]>
[doebel: adjust to contextual and naming differences in 5.10]
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Doebel <[email protected]>
---
The fix is already present in every newer supported stable tree, so
5.10.y is the only one left without it:

  5.15.y  00f74003edf5 (backport)
  6.1.y   e1562cc202c9 (backport)
  6.6.y   and later contain the mainline commit 13ec9308a857 itself

Tested using the Amazon Linux kernel test suite.

 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 26068456ec0f3..2cda74acada2e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -769,6 +769,19 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
+	 * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
+	 * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
+	 * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
+	 */
+	if (fault_status != FSC_PERM || (logging_active && write_fault)) {
+		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
+						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+	}
+
 	/* Let's check if we will get back a huge page backed by hugetlbfs */
 	mmap_read_lock(current->mm);
 	vma = find_vma_intersection(current->mm, hva, hva + 1);
@@ -818,32 +831,17 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 		fault_ipa &= ~(vma_pagesize - 1);
 
 	gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
 
 	/*
-	 * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
-	 * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
-	 * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
-	 * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
+	 * Read mmu_notifier_seq so that KVM can detect if the results of
+	 * find_vma_intersection() or gfn_to_pfn_prot() become stale prior to
+	 * acquiring kvm->mmu_lock.
+	 *
+	 * Rely on mmap_read_unlock() for an implicit smp_rmb(), which pairs
+	 * with the smp_wmb() in kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end().
 	 */
-	if (fault_status != FSC_PERM || (logging_active && write_fault)) {
-		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
-						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
-	}
-
 	mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
-	/*
-	 * Ensure the read of mmu_notifier_seq happens before we call
-	 * gfn_to_pfn_prot (which calls get_user_pages), so that we don't risk
-	 * the page we just got a reference to gets unmapped before we have a
-	 * chance to grab the mmu_lock, which ensure that if the page gets
-	 * unmapped afterwards, the call to kvm_unmap_hva will take it away
-	 * from us again properly. This smp_rmb() interacts with the smp_wmb()
-	 * in kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_<page|range_end>.
-	 */
-	smp_rmb();
+	mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
 
 	pfn = gfn_to_pfn_prot(kvm, gfn, write_fault, &writable);
 	if (pfn == KVM_PFN_ERR_HWPOISON) {
-- 
2.51.0
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.