[PATCH kernel v3 2/2] KVM: PPC: Check if IOMMU page is contained in the pinned physical page

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Thu Jul 5 15:19:04 AEST 2018


On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:42:20 +1000
David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 03:00:52PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > A VM which has:
> >  - a DMA capable device passed through to it (eg. network card);
> >  - running a malicious kernel that ignores H_PUT_TCE failure;
> >  - capability of using IOMMU pages bigger that physical pages
> > can create an IOMMU mapping that exposes (for example) 16MB of
> > the host physical memory to the device when only 64K was allocated to the VM.
> > 
> > The remaining 16MB - 64K will be some other content of host memory, possibly
> > including pages of the VM, but also pages of host kernel memory, host
> > programs or other VMs.
> > 
> > The attacking VM does not control the location of the page it can map,
> > and is only allowed to map as many pages as it has pages of RAM.
> > 
> > We already have a check in drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c that
> > an IOMMU page is contained in the physical page so the PCI hardware won't
> > get access to unassigned host memory; however this check is missing in
> > the KVM fastpath (H_PUT_TCE accelerated code). We were lucky so far and
> > did not hit this yet as the very first time when the mapping happens
> > we do not have tbl::it_userspace allocated yet and fall back to
> > the userspace which in turn calls VFIO IOMMU driver, this fails and
> > the guest does not retry,
> > 
> > This stores the smallest preregistered page size in the preregistered
> > region descriptor and changes the mm_iommu_xxx API to check this against
> > the IOMMU page size. This only allows huge pages use if the entire
> > preregistered block is backed with huge pages which are completely
> > contained the preregistered chunk; otherwise this defaults to PAGE_SIZE.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>  
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> 
> On the grounds that I think this version is safe, which the old one
> wasn't.  However it still has some flaws..
> 
> [snip]
> > @@ -125,7 +126,8 @@ long mm_iommu_get(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ua, unsigned long entries,
> >  {
> >  	struct mm_iommu_table_group_mem_t *mem;
> >  	long i, j, ret = 0, locked_entries = 0;
> > -	struct page *page = NULL;
> > +	unsigned int pageshift;
> > +	struct page *page = NULL, *head = NULL;
> >  
> >  	mutex_lock(&mem_list_mutex);
> >  
> > @@ -159,6 +161,7 @@ long mm_iommu_get(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ua, unsigned long entries,
> >  		goto unlock_exit;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	mem->pageshift = 64;
> >  	mem->hpas = vzalloc(array_size(entries, sizeof(mem->hpas[0])));
> >  	if (!mem->hpas) {
> >  		kfree(mem);
> > @@ -199,9 +202,35 @@ long mm_iommu_get(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ua, unsigned long entries,
> >  			}
> >  		}
> >  populate:
> > +		pageshift = PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +		if (PageCompound(page)) {
> > +			/* Make sure huge page is contained completely */
> > +			struct page *tmphead = compound_head(page);
> > +			unsigned int n = compound_order(tmphead);
> > +
> > +			if (!head) {
> > +				/* Is it a head of a huge page? */
> > +				if (page == tmphead) {
> > +					head = tmphead;
> > +					pageshift += n;
> > +				}
> > +			} else if (head == tmphead) {
> > +				/* Still same huge page, good */
> > +				pageshift += n;
> > +
> > +				/* End of the huge page */
> > +				if (page - head == (1UL << n) - 1)
> > +					head = NULL;
> > +			}
> > +		}
> > +		mem->pageshift = min(mem->pageshift, pageshift);
> >  		mem->hpas[i] = page_to_pfn(page) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	/* We have an incomplete huge page, default to PAGE_SHIFT */
> > +	if (head)
> > +		mem->pageshift = PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +  
> 
> So, if the user attempts to prereg a region which starts or ends in
> the middle of a hugepage, this logic will clamp the region's max page
> shift down to PAGE_SHIFT.  That's safe, but not optimal.
> 
> Suppose userspace had an area backed with 16MiB hugepages, and wanted
> to pre-reg a window that was 2MiB aligned, but not 16MiB aligned.  It
> would still be safe to allow 2MiB TCEs, but the code above would clamp
> it down to 64kiB (or 4kiB).
> 
> The code to do it is also pretty convoluted.
> 
> I think you'd be better off initializing mem->pageshift to the largest
> possible natural alignment of the region:
> 	mem->pageshift = ctz64(ua | (entries << PAGE_SHIFT));
> 
> Then it should just be sufficient to clamp pageshift down to
> compound_order() + PAGE_SHIFT for each entry.


I like this better, just one question - does hugetlbfs guarantee the @ua
alignment if backed with an actual huge page?


--
Alexey
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