From a2b7861bb33b2538420bb5d8554153484d3f961f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boqun Feng Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 21:36:51 +0800 Subject: kvm/x86: Avoid async PF preempting the kernel incorrectly MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Currently, in PREEMPT_COUNT=n kernel, kvm_async_pf_task_wait() could call schedule() to reschedule in some cases. This could result in accidentally ending the current RCU read-side critical section early, causing random memory corruption in the guest, or otherwise preempting the currently running task inside between preempt_disable and preempt_enable. The difficulty to handle this well is because we don't know whether an async PF delivered in a preemptible section or RCU read-side critical section for PREEMPT_COUNT=n, since preempt_disable()/enable() and rcu_read_lock/unlock() are both no-ops in that case. To cure this, we treat any async PF interrupting a kernel context as one that cannot be preempted, preventing kvm_async_pf_task_wait() from choosing the schedule() path in that case. To do so, a second parameter for kvm_async_pf_task_wait() is introduced, so that we know whether it's called from a context interrupting the kernel, and the parameter is set properly in all the callsites. Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Wanpeng Li Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm') diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index eca30c1eb1d9..106d4a029a8a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -3837,7 +3837,7 @@ int kvm_handle_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 error_code, case KVM_PV_REASON_PAGE_NOT_PRESENT: vcpu->arch.apf.host_apf_reason = 0; local_irq_disable(); - kvm_async_pf_task_wait(fault_address); + kvm_async_pf_task_wait(fault_address, 0); local_irq_enable(); break; case KVM_PV_REASON_PAGE_READY: -- cgit v1.2.3