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author | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2021-12-06 20:54:07 +0100 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2021-12-08 04:24:16 -0500 |
commit | afa319a54a8c760ba59683cd3c4318635049a664 (patch) | |
tree | 603b07831f75f94f4215e7113ac3dbb5b6e4ac5a /include/linux/kvm_host.h | |
parent | 214bd3a6f46981b7867946e1b4f628a06bcf2091 (diff) | |
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KVM: Require total number of memslot pages to fit in an unsigned long
Explicitly disallow creating more memslot pages than can fit in an
unsigned long, KVM doesn't correctly handle a total number of memslot
pages that doesn't fit in an unsigned long and remedying that would be a
waste of time.
For a 64-bit kernel, this is a nop as memslots are not allowed to overlap
in the gfn address space.
With a 32-bit kernel, userspace can at most address 3gb of virtual memory,
whereas wrapping the total number of pages would require 4tb+ of guest
physical memory. Even with x86's second address space for SMM, userspace
would need to alias all of guest memory more than one _thousand_ times.
And on older x86 hardware with MAXPHYADDR < 43, the guest couldn't
actually access any of those aliases even if userspace lied about
guest.MAXPHYADDR.
On 390 and arm64, this is a nop as they don't support 32-bit hosts.
On x86, practically speaking this is simply acknowledging reality as the
existing kvm_mmu_calculate_default_mmu_pages() assumes the total number
of pages fits in an "unsigned long".
On PPC, this is likely a nop as every flavor of PPC KVM assumes gfns (and
gpas!) fit in unsigned long. arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c goes
a step further and fails the build if CONFIG_PTE_64BIT=y, which
presumably means that it does't support 64-bit physical addresses.
On MIPS, this is also likely a nop as the core MMU helpers assume gpas
fit in unsigned long, e.g. see kvm_mips_##name##_pte.
And finally, RISC-V is a "don't care" as it doesn't exist in any release,
i.e. there is no established ABI to break.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <1c2c91baf8e78acccd4dad38da591002e61c013c.1638817638.git.maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kvm_host.h')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h index 66548287ed42..e38705359af5 100644 --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h @@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ struct kvm { */ struct mutex slots_arch_lock; struct mm_struct *mm; /* userspace tied to this vm */ + unsigned long nr_memslot_pages; struct kvm_memslots __rcu *memslots[KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM]; struct xarray vcpu_array; |