[kernel, v7, 2/2] KVM: PPC: Check if IOMMU page is contained in the pinned physical page

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jul 19 16:06:10 AEST 2018


On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 07:19:13 UTC, 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 calculates maximum page size as a minimum of the natural region
> alignment and compound page size. For the page shift this uses the shift
> returned by find_linux_pte() which indicates how the page is mapped to
> the current userspace - if the page is huge and this is not a zero, then
> it is a leaf pte and the page is mapped within the range.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/76fa4975f3ed12d15762bc979ca440

cheers


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