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KVM uses lookup_address_in_mm() to detect the hugepage size that the host uses to map a pfn. The function suffers from several issues: - no usage of READ_ONCE(*). This allows multiple dereference of the same page table entry. The TOCTOU problem because of that may cause KVM to incorrectly treat a newly generated leaf entry as a nonleaf one, and dereference the content by using its pfn value. - the information returned does not match what KVM needs; for non-present entries it returns the level at which the walk was terminated, as long as the entry is not 'none'. KVM needs level information of only 'present' entries, otherwise it may regard a non-present PXE entry as a present large page mapping. - the function is not safe for mappings that can be torn down, because it does not disable IRQs and because it returns a PTE pointer which is never safe to dereference after the function returns. So implement the logic for walking host page tables directly in KVM, and stop using lookup_address_in_mm(). Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com> Message-Id: <20220429031757.2042406-1-mizhang@google.com> [Inline in host_pfn_mapping_level, ensure no semantic change for its callers. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.