[PATCH kernel] KVM: PPC: Book3S: Suppress failed alloc warning in H_COPY_TOFROM_GUEST

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Wed Sep 1 18:45:50 AEST 2021


H_COPY_TOFROM_GUEST is an hcall for an upper level VM to access its nested
VMs memory. The userspace can trigger WARN_ON_ONCE(!(gfp & __GFP_NOWARN))
in __alloc_pages() by constructing a tiny VM which only does
H_COPY_TOFROM_GUEST with a too big GPR9 (number of bytes to copy).

This silences the warning by adding __GFP_NOWARN.

Spotted by syzkaller.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_nested.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_nested.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_nested.c
index e57c08b968c0..a2e34efb8d31 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_nested.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_nested.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ long kvmhv_copy_tofrom_guest_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (eaddr & (0xFFFUL << 52))
 		return H_PARAMETER;
 
-	buf = kzalloc(n, GFP_KERNEL);
+	buf = kzalloc(n, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
 	if (!buf)
 		return H_NO_MEM;
 
-- 
2.30.2



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