[PATCH v2 1/9] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix H_REGISTER_VPA VPA size validation

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Sun Aug 13 11:33:38 AEST 2017


KVM currently validates the size of the VPA registered by the client
against sizeof(struct lppaca), however we align (and therefore size)
that struct to 1kB to avoid crossing a 4kB boundary in the client.

PAPR calls for sizes >= 640 bytes to be accepted. Hard code this with
a comment.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 359c79cdf0cc..1182cfd79857 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -485,7 +485,13 @@ static unsigned long do_h_register_vpa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 
 	switch (subfunc) {
 	case H_VPA_REG_VPA:		/* register VPA */
-		if (len < sizeof(struct lppaca))
+		/*
+		 * The size of our lppaca is 1kB because of the way we align
+		 * it for the guest to avoid crossing a 4kB boundary. We only
+		 * use 640 bytes of the structure though, so we should accept
+		 * clients that set a size of 640.
+		 */
+		if (len < 640)
 			break;
 		vpap = &tvcpu->arch.vpa;
 		err = 0;
-- 
2.13.3



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