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Commit ac8ce7ee authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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KVM: do not assume PTE is writable after follow_pfn



commit bd2fae8d upstream.

In order to convert an HVA to a PFN, KVM usually tries to use
the get_user_pages family of functinso.  This however is not
possible for VM_IO vmas; in that case, KVM instead uses follow_pfn.

In doing this however KVM loses the information on whether the
PFN is writable.  That is usually not a problem because the main
use of VM_IO vmas with KVM is for BARs in PCI device assignment,
however it is a bug.  To fix it, use follow_pte and check pte_write
while under the protection of the PTE lock.  The information can
be used to fail hva_to_pfn_remapped or passed back to the
caller via *writable.

Usage of follow_pfn was introduced in commit add6a0cd ("KVM: MMU: try to fix
up page faults before giving up", 2016-07-05); however, even older version
have the same issue, all the way back to commit 2e2e3738 ("KVM:
Handle vma regions with no backing page", 2008-07-20), as they also did
not check whether the PFN was writable.

Fixes: 2e2e3738 ("KVM: Handle vma regions with no backing page")
Reported-by: default avatarDavid Stevens <stevensd@google.com>
Cc: 3pvd@google.com
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[OP: backport to 4.14, adjust follow_pte() -> follow_pte_pmd()]
Signed-off-by: default avatarOvidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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