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[V2,01/10] KVM: X86: Fix missed remote tlb flush in rmap_write_protect()

Message ID 20210918005636.3675-2-jiangshanlai@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [V2,01/10] KVM: X86: Fix missed remote tlb flush in rmap_write_protect() | expand

Commit Message

Lai Jiangshan Sept. 18, 2021, 12:56 a.m. UTC 
From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>

When kvm->tlbs_dirty > 0, some rmaps might have been deleted
without flushing tlb remotely after kvm_sync_page().  If @gfn
was writable before and it's rmaps was deleted in kvm_sync_page(),
and if the tlb entry is still in a remote running VCPU,  the @gfn
is not safely protected.

To fix the problem, kvm_sync_page() does the remote flush when
needed to avoid the problem.

Fixes: a4ee1ca4a36e ("KVM: MMU: delay flush all tlbs on sync_page path")
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
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Changed from V1:
	force remote flush timely instead of increasing tlbs_dirty.

 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h | 23 ++---------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
index 72f358613786..5962d4f8a72e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -1038,14 +1038,6 @@  static gpa_t FNAME(gva_to_gpa_nested)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t vaddr,
  * Using the cached information from sp->gfns is safe because:
  * - The spte has a reference to the struct page, so the pfn for a given gfn
  *   can't change unless all sptes pointing to it are nuked first.
- *
- * Note:
- *   We should flush all tlbs if spte is dropped even though guest is
- *   responsible for it. Since if we don't, kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_page
- *   and kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start detect the mapping page isn't
- *   used by guest then tlbs are not flushed, so guest is allowed to access the
- *   freed pages.
- *   And we increase kvm->tlbs_dirty to delay tlbs flush in this case.
  */
 static int FNAME(sync_page)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
 {
@@ -1098,13 +1090,7 @@  static int FNAME(sync_page)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
 			return 0;
 
 		if (FNAME(prefetch_invalid_gpte)(vcpu, sp, &sp->spt[i], gpte)) {
-			/*
-			 * Update spte before increasing tlbs_dirty to make
-			 * sure no tlb flush is lost after spte is zapped; see
-			 * the comments in kvm_flush_remote_tlbs().
-			 */
-			smp_wmb();
-			vcpu->kvm->tlbs_dirty++;
+			set_spte_ret |= SET_SPTE_NEED_REMOTE_TLB_FLUSH;
 			continue;
 		}
 
@@ -1119,12 +1105,7 @@  static int FNAME(sync_page)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
 
 		if (gfn != sp->gfns[i]) {
 			drop_spte(vcpu->kvm, &sp->spt[i]);
-			/*
-			 * The same as above where we are doing
-			 * prefetch_invalid_gpte().
-			 */
-			smp_wmb();
-			vcpu->kvm->tlbs_dirty++;
+			set_spte_ret |= SET_SPTE_NEED_REMOTE_TLB_FLUSH;
 			continue;
 		}