On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:10:24AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> In kvm_free_stage2_pgd() we check the stage2 PGD before holding
> the lock and proceed to take the lock if it is valid. And we unmap
> the page tables, followed by releasing the lock. We reset the PGD
> only after dropping this lock, which could cause a race condition
> where another thread waiting on the lock could potentially see that
> the PGD is still valid and proceed to perform a stage2 operation.
>
> This patch moves the stage2 PGD manipulation under the lock.
>
> Reported-by: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.d...@linaro.org>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyng...@arm.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poul...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cd...@linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 14 ++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> index 582a972..9c4026d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -835,16 +835,18 @@ void stage2_unmap_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
> */
> void kvm_free_stage2_pgd(struct kvm *kvm)
> {
> - if (kvm->arch.pgd == NULL)
> - return;
> + void *pgd = NULL;
>
> spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> - unmap_stage2_range(kvm, 0, KVM_PHYS_SIZE);
> + if (kvm->arch.pgd) {
> + unmap_stage2_range(kvm, 0, KVM_PHYS_SIZE);
> + pgd = kvm->arch.pgd;
> + kvm->arch.pgd = NULL;
> + }
> spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> -
> /* Free the HW pgd, one page at a time */
> - free_pages_exact(kvm->arch.pgd, S2_PGD_SIZE);
> - kvm->arch.pgd = NULL;
> + if (pgd)
> + free_pages_exact(pgd, S2_PGD_SIZE);
> }
>
> static pud_t *stage2_get_pud(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache
> *cache,
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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