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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Retry fault if vma_lookup() results become" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 13ec9308a85702af7c31f3638a2720863848a7f2
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2023040325-tables-zigzagged-e167@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

13ec9308a857 ("KVM: arm64: Retry fault if vma_lookup() results become invalid") b0803ba72b55 ("KVM: arm64: Convert FSC_* over to ESR_ELx_FSC_*") 382b5b87a97d ("Merge branch kvm-arm64/mte-map-shared into kvmarm-master/next")

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 13ec9308a85702af7c31f3638a2720863848a7f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Matlack <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:54:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Retry fault if vma_lookup() results become
invalid

Read mmu_invalidate_seq before dropping the mmap_lock so that KVM can detect if the results of vma_lookup() (e.g. vma_shift) become stale before it acquires kvm->mmu_lock. This fixes a theoretical bug where a VMA could be changed by userspace after vma_lookup() and before KVM reads the mmu_invalidate_seq, causing KVM to install page table entries based on a (possibly) no-longer-valid vma_shift.

Re-order the MMU cache top-up to earlier in user_mem_abort() so that it is not done after KVM has read mmu_invalidate_seq (i.e. so as to avoid inducing spurious fault retries).

This bug has existed since KVM/ARM's inception. It's unlikely that any sane userspace currently modifies VMAs in such a way as to trigger this race. And even with directed testing I was unable to reproduce it. But a sufficiently motivated host userspace might be able to exploit this race.

arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c +21 -27
index 7113587222ff..f54408355d1d 100644
@@ -1217,6 +1217,20 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
+	 * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
+	 * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
+	 * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
+	 */
+	if (fault_status != ESR_ELx_FSC_PERM ||
+	    (logging_active && write_fault)) {
+		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
+						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Let's check if we will get back a huge page backed by hugetlbfs, or
 	 * get block mapping for device MMIO region.
@@ -1269,37 +1283,17 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 		fault_ipa &= ~(vma_pagesize - 1);
 
 	gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
-
-	/*
-	 * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
-	 * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
-	 * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
-	 * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
-	 */
-	if (fault_status != ESR_ELx_FSC_PERM ||
-	    (logging_active && write_fault)) {
-		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
-						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
-	}
 
-	mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_invalidate_seq;
 	/*
-	 * Ensure the read of mmu_invalidate_seq happens before we call
-	 * gfn_to_pfn_prot (which calls get_user_pages), so that we don't risk
-	 * the page we just got a reference to gets unmapped before we have a
-	 * chance to grab the mmu_lock, which ensure that if the page gets
-	 * unmapped afterwards, the call to kvm_unmap_gfn will take it away
-	 * from us again properly. This smp_rmb() interacts with the smp_wmb()
-	 * in kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_<page|range_end>.
+	 * Read mmu_invalidate_seq so that KVM can detect if the results of
+	 * vma_lookup() or __gfn_to_pfn_memslot() become stale prior to
+	 * acquiring kvm->mmu_lock.
 	 *
-	 * Besides, __gfn_to_pfn_memslot() instead of gfn_to_pfn_prot() is
-	 * used to avoid unnecessary overhead introduced to locate the memory
-	 * slot because it's always fixed even @gfn is adjusted for huge pages.
+	 * Rely on mmap_read_unlock() for an implicit smp_rmb(), which pairs
+	 * with the smp_wmb() in kvm_mmu_invalidate_end().
 	 */
-	smp_rmb();
+	mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_invalidate_seq;
+	mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
 
 	pfn = __gfn_to_pfn_memslot(memslot, gfn, false, false, NULL,
 				   write_fault, &writable, NULL);