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Commit 52e322ed authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86/mmu: BUG() in rmap helpers iff CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION=y

Introduce KVM_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION() and use it in the low-level rmap
helpers to convert the existing BUG()s to WARN_ON_ONCE() when the kernel
is built with CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION=n, i.e. does NOT want to BUG()
on corruption of host kernel data structures.  Environments that don't
have infrastructure to automatically capture crash dumps, i.e. aren't
likely to enable CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION=y, are typically better
served overall by WARN-and-continue behavior (for the kernel, the VM is
dead regardless), as a BUG() while holding mmu_lock all but guarantees
the _best_ case scenario is a panic().

Make the BUG()s conditional instead of removing/replacing them entirely as
there's a non-zero chance (though by no means a guarantee) that the damage
isn't contained to the target VM, e.g. if no rmap is found for a SPTE then
KVM may be double-zapping the SPTE, i.e. has already freed the memory the
SPTE pointed at and thus KVM is reading/writing memory that KVM no longer
owns.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221129191237.31447-1-mizhang@google.com


Suggested-by: default avatarMingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230729004722.1056172-13-seanjc@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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