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[Xen-changelog] [xen-4.2-testing] x86/passthrough: Fix corruption caused by race conditions between


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  • Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:22:08 +0000
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# HG changeset patch
# User Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1347474798 -3600
# Node ID 9cec8d14a1ea8a168f02aac8bbf8379e93f5b5fa
# Parent  7550c9b55af27e7d046fcb643062827c576490a1
x86/passthrough: Fix corruption caused by race conditions between
device allocation and deallocation to a domain.

A toolstack, when dealing with a domain using PCIPassthrough, could
reasonably be expected to issue DOMCTL_deassign_device hypercalls to
remove all passed through devices before issuing a
DOMCTL_destroydomain hypercall to kill the domain.  In the case where
a toolstack is perhaps less sensible in this regard, the hypervisor
should not fall over.

In domain_kill(), pci_release_devices() searches the alldevs_list list
looking for PCI devices still assigned to the domain.  If the
toolstack has correctly deassigned all devices before killing the
domain, this loop does nothing.

However, if there are still devices attached to the domain, the loop
will call pci_cleanup_msi() without unbinding the pirq from the
domain.  This eventually calls destroy_irq() which xfree()'s the
action.

However, as the irq_desc->action pointer is abused in an unsafe
matter, without unbinding first (which at least correctly cleans up),
the action is actually an irq_guest_action_t* rather than an
irqaction*, meaning that the cpu_eoi_map is leaked, and eoi_timer is
free()'d while still being on a pcpu's inactive_timer list.  As a
result, when this free()'d memory gets reused, the inactive_timer list
becomes corrupt, and list_*** operations will corrupt hypervisor
memory.

If the above were not bad enough, the loop in pci_release_devices()
still leaves references to the irq it destroyed in
domain->arch.pirq_irq and irq_pirq, meaning that a later loop,
free_domain_pirqs(), which happens as a result of
complete_domain_destroy() will unbind and destroy all irqs which were
still bound to the domain, resulting in a double destroy of any irq
which was still bound to the domain at the point at which the
DOMCTL_destroydomain hypercall happened.

Because of the allocation of irqs from find_unassigned_irq(), the
lowest free irq number is going to be handed back from create_irq().

There is a further race condition between the original (incorrect)
call to destroy_irq() from pci_release_devices(), and the later call
to free_domain_pirqs() (which happens in a softirq context at some
point after the domain has officially died) during which the same irq
number (which is still referenced in a stale way in
domain->arch.pirq_irq and irq_pirq) has been allocated to a new domain
via a PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq hypercall (Say perhaps in the case of
rebooting a domain).

In this case, the cleanup for the dead domain will free the recently
bound irq under the feet of the new domain.  Furthermore, after the
irq has been incorrectly destroyed, the same domain with another
PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq hypercall can be allocated the same irq number as
before, leading to an error along the lines of:

../physdev.c:188: dom54: -1:-1 already mapped to 74

In this case, the pirq_irq and irq_pirq mappings get updated to the
new PCI device from the latter PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq hypercall, and the
IOMMU interrupt remapping registers get updated, leading to IOMMU
Primary Pending Fault due to source-id verification failure for
incoming interrupts from the passed through device.

The easy fix is to simply deassign the device in pci_release_devices()
and leave all the real cleanup to the free_domain_pirqs() which
correctly unbinds and destroys the irq without leaving stale
references around.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
xen-unstable changeset:   25883:4fdaebea82d7
xen-unstable date:        Wed Sep 12 19:31:16 2012 +0100
---


diff -r 7550c9b55af2 -r 9cec8d14a1ea xen/drivers/passthrough/pci.c
--- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/pci.c     Wed Sep 12 19:03:50 2012 +0100
+++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/pci.c     Wed Sep 12 19:33:18 2012 +0100
@@ -551,7 +551,6 @@ void pci_release_devices(struct domain *
     pci_clean_dpci_irqs(d);
     while ( (pdev = pci_get_pdev_by_domain(d, -1, -1, -1)) )
     {
-        pci_cleanup_msi(pdev);
         bus = pdev->bus;
         devfn = pdev->devfn;
         if ( deassign_device(d, pdev->seg, bus, devfn) )

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