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[xen staging] x86/vmx: use P2M_ALLOC in vmx_load_pdptrs instead of P2M_UNSHARE



commit b67e859d0823f5b450e29379af9142d44a3ea370
Author:     Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri Jun 19 15:24:55 2020 +0200
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri Jun 19 15:24:55 2020 +0200

    x86/vmx: use P2M_ALLOC in vmx_load_pdptrs instead of P2M_UNSHARE
    
    While forking VMs running a small RTOS system (Zephyr) a Xen crash has been
    observed due to a mm-lock order violation while copying the HVM CPU context
    from the parent. This issue has been identified to be due to
    hap_update_paging_modes first getting a lock on the gfn using get_gfn. This
    call also creates a shared entry in the fork's memory map for the cr3 gfn. 
The
    function later calls hap_update_cr3 while holding the paging_lock, which
    results in the lock-order violation in vmx_load_pdptrs when it tries to 
unshare
    the above entry when it grabs the page with the P2M_UNSHARE flag set.
    
    Since vmx_load_pdptrs only reads from the page its usage of P2M_UNSHARE was
    unnecessary to start with. Using P2M_ALLOC is the appropriate flag to ensure
    the p2m is properly populated.
    
    Note that the lock order violation is avoided because before the 
paging_lock is
    taken a lookup is performed with P2M_ALLOC that forks the page, thus the 
second
    lookup in vmx_load_pdptrs succeeds without having to perform the fork. We 
keep
    P2M_ALLOC in vmx_load_pdptrs because there are code-paths leading up to it
    which don't take the paging_lock and that have no previous lookup. 
Currently no
    other code-path exists leading there with the paging_lock taken, thus no
    further adjustments are necessary.
    
    Signed-off-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@xxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
    Release-acked-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xxxxxxx>
---
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
index ab19d9424e..cc6d4ece22 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ static void vmx_load_pdptrs(struct vcpu *v)
     if ( (cr3 & 0x1fUL) && !hvm_pcid_enabled(v) )
         goto crash;
 
-    page = get_page_from_gfn(v->domain, cr3 >> PAGE_SHIFT, &p2mt, P2M_UNSHARE);
+    page = get_page_from_gfn(v->domain, cr3 >> PAGE_SHIFT, &p2mt, P2M_ALLOC);
     if ( !page )
     {
         /* Ideally you don't want to crash but rather go into a wait 
--
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