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[v2] KVM: selftests: Fix 32-bit truncation of vm_get_max_gfn()

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Series [v2] KVM: selftests: Fix 32-bit truncation of vm_get_max_gfn() | expand

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David Matlack May 21, 2021, 5:38 p.m. UTC
vm_get_max_gfn() casts vm->max_gfn from a uint64_t to an unsigned int,
which causes the upper 32-bits of the max_gfn to get truncated.

Nobody noticed until now likely because vm_get_max_gfn() is only used
as a mechanism to create a memslot in an unused region of the guest
physical address space (the top), and the top of the 32-bit physical
address space was always good enough.

This fix reveals a bug in memslot_modification_stress_test which was
trying to create a dummy memslot past the end of guest physical memory.
Fix that by moving the dummy memslot lower.

Fixes: 52200d0d944e ("KVM: selftests: Remove duplicate guest mode handling")
Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
---

v1 -> v2:
 - Added Venkatesh's R-b line.
 - Used PRIx64 to print uint64_t instead of %lx.

 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h |  2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c     |  2 +-
 .../testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c |  4 +++-
 .../kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c     | 18 +++++++++++-------
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Comments

Peter Xu May 21, 2021, 5:49 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 05:38:28PM +0000, David Matlack wrote:
> vm_get_max_gfn() casts vm->max_gfn from a uint64_t to an unsigned int,
> which causes the upper 32-bits of the max_gfn to get truncated.
> 
> Nobody noticed until now likely because vm_get_max_gfn() is only used
> as a mechanism to create a memslot in an unused region of the guest
> physical address space (the top), and the top of the 32-bit physical
> address space was always good enough.
> 
> This fix reveals a bug in memslot_modification_stress_test which was
> trying to create a dummy memslot past the end of guest physical memory.
> Fix that by moving the dummy memslot lower.
> 
> Fixes: 52200d0d944e ("KVM: selftests: Remove duplicate guest mode handling")
> Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Andrew Jones May 22, 2021, 10:59 a.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 05:38:28PM +0000, David Matlack wrote:
> vm_get_max_gfn() casts vm->max_gfn from a uint64_t to an unsigned int,
> which causes the upper 32-bits of the max_gfn to get truncated.
> 
> Nobody noticed until now likely because vm_get_max_gfn() is only used
> as a mechanism to create a memslot in an unused region of the guest
> physical address space (the top), and the top of the 32-bit physical
> address space was always good enough.
> 
> This fix reveals a bug in memslot_modification_stress_test which was
> trying to create a dummy memslot past the end of guest physical memory.
> Fix that by moving the dummy memslot lower.
> 
> Fixes: 52200d0d944e ("KVM: selftests: Remove duplicate guest mode handling")
> Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
> ---
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>  - Added Venkatesh's R-b line.
>  - Used PRIx64 to print uint64_t instead of %lx.
> 
>  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h |  2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c     |  2 +-
>  .../testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c |  4 +++-
>  .../kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c     | 18 +++++++++++-------
>  4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>

Thanks,
drew
Paolo Bonzini May 24, 2021, 12:30 p.m. UTC | #3
On 21/05/21 19:38, David Matlack wrote:
> vm_get_max_gfn() casts vm->max_gfn from a uint64_t to an unsigned int,
> which causes the upper 32-bits of the max_gfn to get truncated.
> 
> Nobody noticed until now likely because vm_get_max_gfn() is only used
> as a mechanism to create a memslot in an unused region of the guest
> physical address space (the top), and the top of the 32-bit physical
> address space was always good enough.
> 
> This fix reveals a bug in memslot_modification_stress_test which was
> trying to create a dummy memslot past the end of guest physical memory.
> Fix that by moving the dummy memslot lower.
> 
> Fixes: 52200d0d944e ("KVM: selftests: Remove duplicate guest mode handling")
> Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
> ---
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>   - Added Venkatesh's R-b line.
>   - Used PRIx64 to print uint64_t instead of %lx.
> 
>   tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h |  2 +-
>   tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c     |  2 +-
>   .../testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c |  4 +++-
>   .../kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c     | 18 +++++++++++-------
>   4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> index 84982eb02b29..5d9b35d09251 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ bool vm_is_unrestricted_guest(struct kvm_vm *vm);
>   
>   unsigned int vm_get_page_size(struct kvm_vm *vm);
>   unsigned int vm_get_page_shift(struct kvm_vm *vm);
> -unsigned int vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm);
> +uint64_t vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm);
>   int vm_get_fd(struct kvm_vm *vm);
>   
>   unsigned int vm_calc_num_guest_pages(enum vm_guest_mode mode, size_t size);
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> index 1af1009254c4..aeffbb1e7c7d 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> @@ -2058,7 +2058,7 @@ unsigned int vm_get_page_shift(struct kvm_vm *vm)
>   	return vm->page_shift;
>   }
>   
> -unsigned int vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm)
> +uint64_t vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm)
>   {
>   	return vm->max_gfn;
>   }
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
> index 81490b9b4e32..abf381800a59 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>   /*
>    * Copyright (C) 2020, Google LLC.
>    */
> +#include <inttypes.h>
>   
>   #include "kvm_util.h"
>   #include "perf_test_util.h"
> @@ -80,7 +81,8 @@ struct kvm_vm *perf_test_create_vm(enum vm_guest_mode mode, int vcpus,
>   	 */
>   	TEST_ASSERT(guest_num_pages < vm_get_max_gfn(vm),
>   		    "Requested more guest memory than address space allows.\n"
> -		    "    guest pages: %lx max gfn: %x vcpus: %d wss: %lx]\n",
> +		    "    guest pages: %" PRIx64 " max gfn: %" PRIx64
> +		    " vcpus: %d wss: %" PRIx64 "]\n",
>   		    guest_num_pages, vm_get_max_gfn(vm), vcpus,
>   		    vcpu_memory_bytes);
>   
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c
> index 6096bf0a5b34..98351ba0933c 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c
> @@ -71,14 +71,22 @@ struct memslot_antagonist_args {
>   };
>   
>   static void add_remove_memslot(struct kvm_vm *vm, useconds_t delay,
> -			      uint64_t nr_modifications, uint64_t gpa)
> +			       uint64_t nr_modifications)
>   {
> +	const uint64_t pages = 1;
> +	uint64_t gpa;
>   	int i;
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * Add the dummy memslot just below the perf_test_util memslot, which is
> +	 * at the top of the guest physical address space.
> +	 */
> +	gpa = guest_test_phys_mem - pages * vm_get_page_size(vm);
> +
>   	for (i = 0; i < nr_modifications; i++) {
>   		usleep(delay);
>   		vm_userspace_mem_region_add(vm, VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS, gpa,
> -					    DUMMY_MEMSLOT_INDEX, 1, 0);
> +					    DUMMY_MEMSLOT_INDEX, pages, 0);
>   
>   		vm_mem_region_delete(vm, DUMMY_MEMSLOT_INDEX);
>   	}
> @@ -120,11 +128,7 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, void *arg)
>   	pr_info("Started all vCPUs\n");
>   
>   	add_remove_memslot(vm, p->memslot_modification_delay,
> -			   p->nr_memslot_modifications,
> -			   guest_test_phys_mem +
> -			   (guest_percpu_mem_size * nr_vcpus) +
> -			   perf_test_args.host_page_size +
> -			   perf_test_args.guest_page_size);
> +			   p->nr_memslot_modifications);
>   
>   	run_vcpus = false;
>   
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo
Christian Borntraeger June 8, 2021, 8:39 a.m. UTC | #4
On 21.05.21 19:38, David Matlack wrote:
> vm_get_max_gfn() casts vm->max_gfn from a uint64_t to an unsigned int,
> which causes the upper 32-bits of the max_gfn to get truncated.
> 
> Nobody noticed until now likely because vm_get_max_gfn() is only used
> as a mechanism to create a memslot in an unused region of the guest
> physical address space (the top), and the top of the 32-bit physical
> address space was always good enough.
> 
> This fix reveals a bug in memslot_modification_stress_test which was
> trying to create a dummy memslot past the end of guest physical memory.
> Fix that by moving the dummy memslot lower.
> 
> Fixes: 52200d0d944e ("KVM: selftests: Remove duplicate guest mode handling")
> Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>

As a heads up:
I have not yet looked into this, but this broke demand_paging_test and kvm_page_table_test
on s390:

not ok 4 selftests: kvm: demand_paging_test # exit=254
# selftests: kvm: dirty_log_test
# ==== Test Assertion Failure ====
#   lib/kvm_util.c:900: ret == 0
#   pid=245410 tid=245410 errno=22 - Invalid argument
#      1	0x0000000001005457: vm_userspace_mem_region_add at kvm_util.c:900
#      2	0x0000000001002cbf: run_test at dirty_log_test.c:757
#      3	 (inlined by) run_test at dirty_log_test.c:702
#      4	0x000000000100c055: for_each_guest_mode at guest_modes.c:37
#      5	0x00000000010022b5: main at dirty_log_test.c:929 (discriminator 3)
#      6	0x000003ff96fabdb3: ?? ??:0
#      7	0x000000000100241d: .annobin_lto.hot at crt1.o:?
#   KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION IOCTL failed,
#   rc: -1 errno: 22
#   slot: 1 flags: 0x1
#   guest_phys_addr: 0xfffffbfe00000 size: 0x40100000
# Test iterations: 32, interval: 10 (ms)
# Testing Log Mode 'dirty-log'
# Testing guest mode: PA-bits:52,  VA-bits:48,  4K pages
# guest physical test memory offset: 0xfffffbfe00000
not ok 5 selftests: kvm: dirty_log_test # exit=254
# selftests: kvm: kvm_create_max_vcpus
# KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID: 248
# KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS: 248
# Testing creating 248 vCPUs, with IDs 0...247.
ok 6 selftests: kvm: kvm_create_max_vcpus
# selftests: kvm: kvm_page_table_test
# ==== Test Assertion Failure ====
#   lib/kvm_util.c:900: ret == 0
#   pid=245454 tid=245454 errno=22 - Invalid argument
#      1	0x0000000001003e47: vm_userspace_mem_region_add at kvm_util.c:900
#      2	0x000000000100257d: pre_init_before_test at kvm_page_table_test.c:302
#      3	 (inlined by) run_test at kvm_page_table_test.c:374
#      4	0x000000000100aa45: for_each_guest_mode at guest_modes.c:37
#      5	0x0000000001001dd9: main at kvm_page_table_test.c:503
#      6	0x000003ff827abdb3: ?? ??:0
#      7	0x0000000001001e8d: .annobin_lto.hot at crt1.o:?
#   KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION IOCTL failed,
#   rc: -1 errno: 22
#   slot: 1 flags: 0x0
#   guest_phys_addr: 0xfffffbff00000 size: 0x40000000
not ok 7 selftests: kvm: kvm_page_table_test # exit=254


> ---
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>   - Added Venkatesh's R-b line.
>   - Used PRIx64 to print uint64_t instead of %lx.
> 
>   tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h |  2 +-
>   tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c     |  2 +-
>   .../testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c |  4 +++-
>   .../kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c     | 18 +++++++++++-------
>   4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> index 84982eb02b29..5d9b35d09251 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ bool vm_is_unrestricted_guest(struct kvm_vm *vm);
> 
>   unsigned int vm_get_page_size(struct kvm_vm *vm);
>   unsigned int vm_get_page_shift(struct kvm_vm *vm);
> -unsigned int vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm);
> +uint64_t vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm);
>   int vm_get_fd(struct kvm_vm *vm);
> 
>   unsigned int vm_calc_num_guest_pages(enum vm_guest_mode mode, size_t size);
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> index 1af1009254c4..aeffbb1e7c7d 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> @@ -2058,7 +2058,7 @@ unsigned int vm_get_page_shift(struct kvm_vm *vm)
>   	return vm->page_shift;
>   }
> 
> -unsigned int vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm)
> +uint64_t vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm)
>   {
>   	return vm->max_gfn;
>   }
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
> index 81490b9b4e32..abf381800a59 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>   /*
>    * Copyright (C) 2020, Google LLC.
>    */
> +#include <inttypes.h>
> 
>   #include "kvm_util.h"
>   #include "perf_test_util.h"
> @@ -80,7 +81,8 @@ struct kvm_vm *perf_test_create_vm(enum vm_guest_mode mode, int vcpus,
>   	 */
>   	TEST_ASSERT(guest_num_pages < vm_get_max_gfn(vm),
>   		    "Requested more guest memory than address space allows.\n"
> -		    "    guest pages: %lx max gfn: %x vcpus: %d wss: %lx]\n",
> +		    "    guest pages: %" PRIx64 " max gfn: %" PRIx64
> +		    " vcpus: %d wss: %" PRIx64 "]\n",
>   		    guest_num_pages, vm_get_max_gfn(vm), vcpus,
>   		    vcpu_memory_bytes);
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c
> index 6096bf0a5b34..98351ba0933c 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c
> @@ -71,14 +71,22 @@ struct memslot_antagonist_args {
>   };
> 
>   static void add_remove_memslot(struct kvm_vm *vm, useconds_t delay,
> -			      uint64_t nr_modifications, uint64_t gpa)
> +			       uint64_t nr_modifications)
>   {
> +	const uint64_t pages = 1;
> +	uint64_t gpa;
>   	int i;
> 
> +	/*
> +	 * Add the dummy memslot just below the perf_test_util memslot, which is
> +	 * at the top of the guest physical address space.
> +	 */
> +	gpa = guest_test_phys_mem - pages * vm_get_page_size(vm);
> +
>   	for (i = 0; i < nr_modifications; i++) {
>   		usleep(delay);
>   		vm_userspace_mem_region_add(vm, VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS, gpa,
> -					    DUMMY_MEMSLOT_INDEX, 1, 0);
> +					    DUMMY_MEMSLOT_INDEX, pages, 0);
> 
>   		vm_mem_region_delete(vm, DUMMY_MEMSLOT_INDEX);
>   	}
> @@ -120,11 +128,7 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, void *arg)
>   	pr_info("Started all vCPUs\n");
> 
>   	add_remove_memslot(vm, p->memslot_modification_delay,
> -			   p->nr_memslot_modifications,
> -			   guest_test_phys_mem +
> -			   (guest_percpu_mem_size * nr_vcpus) +
> -			   perf_test_args.host_page_size +
> -			   perf_test_args.guest_page_size);
> +			   p->nr_memslot_modifications);
> 
>   	run_vcpus = false;
>
Christian Borntraeger June 8, 2021, 10:03 a.m. UTC | #5
On 08.06.21 10:39, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 21.05.21 19:38, David Matlack wrote:
>> vm_get_max_gfn() casts vm->max_gfn from a uint64_t to an unsigned int,
>> which causes the upper 32-bits of the max_gfn to get truncated.
>>
>> Nobody noticed until now likely because vm_get_max_gfn() is only used
>> as a mechanism to create a memslot in an unused region of the guest
>> physical address space (the top), and the top of the 32-bit physical
>> address space was always good enough.
>>
>> This fix reveals a bug in memslot_modification_stress_test which was
>> trying to create a dummy memslot past the end of guest physical memory.
>> Fix that by moving the dummy memslot lower.
>>
>> Fixes: 52200d0d944e ("KVM: selftests: Remove duplicate guest mode handling")
>> Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@chromium.org>
>> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
> 
> As a heads up:
> I have not yet looked into this, but this broke demand_paging_test and kvm_page_table_test
> on s390:
> 
> not ok 4 selftests: kvm: demand_paging_test # exit=254
> # selftests: kvm: dirty_log_test
> # ==== Test Assertion Failure ====
> #   lib/kvm_util.c:900: ret == 0
> #   pid=245410 tid=245410 errno=22 - Invalid argument
> #      1    0x0000000001005457: vm_userspace_mem_region_add at kvm_util.c:900
> #      2    0x0000000001002cbf: run_test at dirty_log_test.c:757
> #      3     (inlined by) run_test at dirty_log_test.c:702
> #      4    0x000000000100c055: for_each_guest_mode at guest_modes.c:37
> #      5    0x00000000010022b5: main at dirty_log_test.c:929 (discriminator 3)
> #      6    0x000003ff96fabdb3: ?? ??:0
> #      7    0x000000000100241d: .annobin_lto.hot at crt1.o:?
> #   KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION IOCTL failed,
> #   rc: -1 errno: 22
> #   slot: 1 flags: 0x1
> #   guest_phys_addr: 0xfffffbfe00000 size: 0x40100000

Ah. We do have a limit of 128TB for guest physical memory. The patch now made this
apparent as we no longer cut the upper bits off.
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
index 84982eb02b29..5d9b35d09251 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@  bool vm_is_unrestricted_guest(struct kvm_vm *vm);
 
 unsigned int vm_get_page_size(struct kvm_vm *vm);
 unsigned int vm_get_page_shift(struct kvm_vm *vm);
-unsigned int vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm);
+uint64_t vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm);
 int vm_get_fd(struct kvm_vm *vm);
 
 unsigned int vm_calc_num_guest_pages(enum vm_guest_mode mode, size_t size);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
index 1af1009254c4..aeffbb1e7c7d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
@@ -2058,7 +2058,7 @@  unsigned int vm_get_page_shift(struct kvm_vm *vm)
 	return vm->page_shift;
 }
 
-unsigned int vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm)
+uint64_t vm_get_max_gfn(struct kvm_vm *vm)
 {
 	return vm->max_gfn;
 }
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
index 81490b9b4e32..abf381800a59 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ 
 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2020, Google LLC.
  */
+#include <inttypes.h>
 
 #include "kvm_util.h"
 #include "perf_test_util.h"
@@ -80,7 +81,8 @@  struct kvm_vm *perf_test_create_vm(enum vm_guest_mode mode, int vcpus,
 	 */
 	TEST_ASSERT(guest_num_pages < vm_get_max_gfn(vm),
 		    "Requested more guest memory than address space allows.\n"
-		    "    guest pages: %lx max gfn: %x vcpus: %d wss: %lx]\n",
+		    "    guest pages: %" PRIx64 " max gfn: %" PRIx64
+		    " vcpus: %d wss: %" PRIx64 "]\n",
 		    guest_num_pages, vm_get_max_gfn(vm), vcpus,
 		    vcpu_memory_bytes);
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c
index 6096bf0a5b34..98351ba0933c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c
@@ -71,14 +71,22 @@  struct memslot_antagonist_args {
 };
 
 static void add_remove_memslot(struct kvm_vm *vm, useconds_t delay,
-			      uint64_t nr_modifications, uint64_t gpa)
+			       uint64_t nr_modifications)
 {
+	const uint64_t pages = 1;
+	uint64_t gpa;
 	int i;
 
+	/*
+	 * Add the dummy memslot just below the perf_test_util memslot, which is
+	 * at the top of the guest physical address space.
+	 */
+	gpa = guest_test_phys_mem - pages * vm_get_page_size(vm);
+
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_modifications; i++) {
 		usleep(delay);
 		vm_userspace_mem_region_add(vm, VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS, gpa,
-					    DUMMY_MEMSLOT_INDEX, 1, 0);
+					    DUMMY_MEMSLOT_INDEX, pages, 0);
 
 		vm_mem_region_delete(vm, DUMMY_MEMSLOT_INDEX);
 	}
@@ -120,11 +128,7 @@  static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, void *arg)
 	pr_info("Started all vCPUs\n");
 
 	add_remove_memslot(vm, p->memslot_modification_delay,
-			   p->nr_memslot_modifications,
-			   guest_test_phys_mem +
-			   (guest_percpu_mem_size * nr_vcpus) +
-			   perf_test_args.host_page_size +
-			   perf_test_args.guest_page_size);
+			   p->nr_memslot_modifications);
 
 	run_vcpus = false;