[PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix copy_tofrom_guest routines

Fabiano Rosas farosas at linux.ibm.com
Fri Aug 6 07:26:14 AEST 2021


The __kvmhv_copy_tofrom_guest_radix function was introduced along with
nested HV guest support. It uses the platform's Radix MMU quadrants to
provide a nested hypervisor with fast access to its nested guests
memory (H_COPY_TOFROM_GUEST hypercall). It has also since been added
as a fast path for the kvmppc_ld/st routines which are used during
instruction emulation.

The commit def0bfdbd603 ("powerpc: use probe_user_read() and
probe_user_write()") changed the low level copy function from
raw_copy_from_user to probe_user_read, which adds a check to
access_ok. In powerpc that is:

 static inline bool __access_ok(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
 {
         return addr < TASK_SIZE_MAX && size <= TASK_SIZE_MAX - addr;
 }

and TASK_SIZE_MAX is 0x0010000000000000UL for 64-bit, which means that
setting the two MSBs of the effective address (which correspond to the
quadrant) now cause access_ok to reject the access.

This was not caught earlier because the most common code path via
kvmppc_ld/st contains a fallback (kvm_read_guest) that is likely to
succeed for L1 guests. For nested guests there is no fallback.

Another issue is that probe_user_read (now __copy_from_user_nofault)
does not return the number of bytes not copied in case of failure, so
the destination memory is not being cleared anymore in
kvmhv_copy_from_guest_radix:

 ret = kvmhv_copy_tofrom_guest_radix(vcpu, eaddr, to, NULL, n);
 if (ret > 0)                            <-- always false!
         memset(to + (n - ret), 0, ret);

This patch fixes both issues by skipping access_ok and open-coding the
low level __copy_to/from_user_inatomic.

Fixes: def0bfdbd603 ("powerpc: use probe_user_read() and probe_user_write()")
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c
index b5905ae4377c..44eb7b1ef289 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c
@@ -65,10 +65,12 @@ unsigned long __kvmhv_copy_tofrom_guest_radix(int lpid, int pid,
 	}
 	isync();
 
+	pagefault_disable();
 	if (is_load)
-		ret = copy_from_user_nofault(to, (const void __user *)from, n);
+		ret = __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, (const void __user *)from, n);
 	else
-		ret = copy_to_user_nofault((void __user *)to, from, n);
+		ret = __copy_to_user_inatomic((void __user *)to, from, n);
+	pagefault_enable();
 
 	/* switch the pid first to avoid running host with unallocated pid */
 	if (quadrant == 1 && pid != old_pid)
-- 
2.29.2



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