On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 02:12:25PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
Am 23.11.22 um 13:53 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 01:49:41PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
Am 23.11.22 um 13:46 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:06:55AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
Maybe a GFP flag to set the page reference count to zero or something like this?
Hm yeah that might work. I'm not sure what it will all break though? And we'd need to make sure that underflowing the page refcount dies in a backtrace.
Mucking with the refcount like this to protect against crazy out of tree drives seems horrible..
Well not only out of tree drivers. The intree KVM got that horrible wrong as well, those where the latest guys complaining about it.
kvm was taking refs on special PTEs? That seems really unlikely?
Well then look at this code here:
commit add6a0cd1c5ba51b201e1361b05a5df817083618 Author: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Date: Tue Jun 7 17:51:18 2016 +0200
KVM: MMU: try to fix up page faults before giving up
The vGPU folks would like to trap the first access to a BAR by setting vm_ops on the VMAs produced by mmap-ing a VFIO device. The fault handler then can use remap_pfn_range to place some non-reserved pages in the VMA.
This kind of VM_PFNMAP mapping is not handled by KVM, but follow_pfn and fixup_user_fault together help supporting it. The patch also supports VM_MIXEDMAP vmas where the pfns are not reserved and thus subject to reference counting.
Cc: Xiao Guangrong guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: Radim Krčmář rkrcmar@redhat.com Tested-by: Neo Jia cjia@nvidia.com Reported-by: Kirti Wankhede kwankhede@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com
This patch is known to be broken in so many ways. It also has a major security hole that it ignores the PTE flags making the page RO. Ignoring the special bit is somehow not surprising :(
This probably doesn't work, but is the general idea of what KVM needs to do:
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index 1376a47fedeedb..4161241fc3228c 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -2598,6 +2598,19 @@ static int hva_to_pfn_remapped(struct vm_area_struct *vma, return r; }
+ /* + * Special PTEs are never convertible into a struct page, even if the + * driver that owns them might have put a PFN with a struct page into + * the PFNMAP. If the arch doesn't support special then we cannot + * safely process these pages. + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL + if (pte_special(*ptep)) + return -EINVAL; +#else + return -EINVAL; +#endif + if (write_fault && !pte_write(*ptep)) { pfn = KVM_PFN_ERR_RO_FAULT; goto out;
Jason