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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [xen master] 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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