Commit 396fd74d authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini

KVM: x86/mmu: WARN on any attempt to atomically update REMOVED SPTE

Disallow calling tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic() with a REMOVED "old" SPTE.
This solves a conundrum introduced by commit 3255530a ("KVM: x86/mmu:
Automatically update iter->old_spte if cmpxchg fails"); if the helper
doesn't update old_spte in the REMOVED case, then theoretically the
caller could get stuck in an infinite loop as it will fail indefinitely
on the REMOVED SPTE.  E.g. until recently, clear_dirty_gfn_range() didn't
check for a present SPTE and would have spun until getting rescheduled.

In practice, only the page fault path should "create" a new SPTE, all
other paths should only operate on existing, a.k.a. shadow present,
SPTEs.  Now that the page fault path pre-checks for a REMOVED SPTE in all
cases, require all other paths to indirectly pre-check by verifying the
target SPTE is a shadow-present SPTE.

Note, this does not guarantee the actual SPTE isn't REMOVED, nor is that
scenario disallowed.  The invariant is only that the caller mustn't
invoke tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic() if the SPTE was REMOVED when last
observed by the caller.

Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220226001546.360188-25-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 58298b06
......@@ -612,16 +612,15 @@ static inline int tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic(struct kvm *kvm,
u64 *sptep = rcu_dereference(iter->sptep);
u64 old_spte;
WARN_ON_ONCE(iter->yielded);
lockdep_assert_held_read(&kvm->mmu_lock);
/*
* Do not change removed SPTEs. Only the thread that froze the SPTE
* may modify it.
* The caller is responsible for ensuring the old SPTE is not a REMOVED
* SPTE. KVM should never attempt to zap or manipulate a REMOVED SPTE,
* and pre-checking before inserting a new SPTE is advantageous as it
* avoids unnecessary work.
*/
if (is_removed_spte(iter->old_spte))
return -EBUSY;
WARN_ON_ONCE(iter->yielded || is_removed_spte(iter->old_spte));
lockdep_assert_held_read(&kvm->mmu_lock);
/*
* Note, fast_pf_fix_direct_spte() can also modify TDP MMU SPTEs and
......
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