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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] kvm: arm/arm64: Fix locking for kvm_free_stage2_pgd
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 02:52:34PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> In kvm_free_stage2_pgd() we don't hold the kvm->mmu_lock while calling
> unmap_stage2_range() on the entire memory range for the guest. This could
> cause problems with other callers (e.g, munmap on a memslot) trying to
> unmap a range.
>
> Fixes: commit d5d8184d35c9 ("KVM: ARM: Memory virtualization setup")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> index 13b9c1f..b361f71 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -831,7 +831,10 @@ void kvm_free_stage2_pgd(struct kvm *kvm)
> if (kvm->arch.pgd == NULL)
> return;
>
> + spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> unmap_stage2_range(kvm, 0, KVM_PHYS_SIZE);
> + spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> +

This ends up holding the spin lock for potentially quite a while, where
we can do things like __flush_dcache_area(), which I think can fault.

Is that valid?

Thanks,
-Christoffer

> /* Free the HW pgd, one page at a time */
> free_pages_exact(kvm->arch.pgd, S2_PGD_SIZE);
> kvm->arch.pgd = NULL;
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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