Patch "kvm-arm: Unmap shadow pagetables properly" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

kvm-arm: Unmap shadow pagetables properly

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
kvm-arm-unmap-shadow-pagetables-properly.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 16:25:49 +0100
Subject: kvm-arm: Unmap shadow pagetables properly

From: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>

commit 293f293637b55db4f9f522a5a72514e98a541076 upstream.

On arm/arm64, we depend on the kvm_unmap_hva* callbacks (via mmu_notifiers::invalidate_*) to unmap the stage2 pagetables when the userspace buffer gets unmapped. However, when the Hypervisor process exits without explicit unmap of the guest buffers, the only notifier we get is kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all() (via mmu_notifier::release ) which does nothing on arm. Later this causes us to access pages that were already released [via exit_mmap() -> unmap_vmas()] when we actually get to unmap the stage2 pagetable [via kvm_arch_destroy_vm() -> kvm_free_stage2_pgd()]. This triggers crashes with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, which unmaps any free'd pages from the linear map.

 [  757.644120] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
  ffff800661e00000
 [  757.652046] pgd = ffff20000b1a2000
 [  757.655471] [ffff800661e00000] *pgd=00000047fffe3003, *pud=00000047fcd8c003,
  *pmd=00000047fcc7c003, *pte=00e8004661e00712
 [  757.666492] Internal error: Oops: 96000147 [#3] PREEMPT SMP
 [  757.672041] Modules linked in:
 [  757.675100] CPU: 7 PID: 3630 Comm: qemu-system-aar Tainted: G      D
 4.8.0-rc1 #3
 [  757.683240] Hardware name: AppliedMicro X-Gene Mustang Board/X-Gene Mustang Board,
  BIOS 3.06.15 Aug 19 2016
 [  757.692938] task: ffff80069cdd3580 task.stack: ffff8006adb7c000
 [  757.698840] PC is at __flush_dcache_area+0x1c/0x40
 [  757.703613] LR is at kvm_flush_dcache_pmd+0x60/0x70
 [  757.708469] pc : [<ffff20000809dbdc>] lr : [<ffff2000080b4a70>] pstate: 20000145
 ...
 [  758.357249] [<ffff20000809dbdc>] __flush_dcache_area+0x1c/0x40
 [  758.363059] [<ffff2000080b6748>] unmap_stage2_range+0x458/0x5f0
 [  758.368954] [<ffff2000080b708c>] kvm_free_stage2_pgd+0x34/0x60
 [  758.374761] [<ffff2000080b2280>] kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x20/0x68
 [  758.380570] [<ffff2000080aa330>] kvm_put_kvm+0x210/0x358
 [  758.385860] [<ffff2000080aa524>] kvm_vm_release+0x2c/0x40
 [  758.391239] [<ffff2000082ad234>] __fput+0x114/0x2e8
 [  758.396096] [<ffff2000082ad46c>] ____fput+0xc/0x18
 [  758.400869] [<ffff200008104658>] task_work_run+0x108/0x138
 [  758.406332] [<ffff2000080dc8ec>] do_exit+0x48c/0x10e8
 [  758.411363] [<ffff2000080dd5fc>] do_group_exit+0x6c/0x130
 [  758.416739] [<ffff2000080ed924>] get_signal+0x284/0xa18
 [  758.421943] [<ffff20000808a098>] do_signal+0x158/0x860
 [  758.427060] [<ffff20000808aad4>] do_notify_resume+0x6c/0x88
 [  758.432608] [<ffff200008083624>] work_pending+0x10/0x14
 [  758.437812] Code: 9ac32042 8b010001 d1000443 8a230000 (d50b7e20)

This patch fixes the issue by moving the kvm_free_stage2_pgd() to kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all().

---
 arch/arm/kvm/arm.c |    2 --
 arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c |    1 +
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -157,8 +157,6 @@ void kvm_arch_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm
 {
 	int i;
 
-	kvm_free_stage2_pgd(kvm);
-
 	for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCPUS; ++i) {
 		if (kvm->vcpus[i]) {
 			kvm_arch_vcpu_free(kvm->vcpus[i]);

@@ -1909,6 +1909,7 @@ void kvm_arch_memslots_updated(struct kv
 
 void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
+	kvm_free_stage2_pgd(kvm);
 }
 
 void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot(struct kvm *kvm,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.7/kvm-arm-unmap-shadow-pagetables-properly.patch