Hi Marc, On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 05:39:21PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote: > We so far mapped our HYP IO (which is essencially the GICv2 control > registers) using the same method as for memory. It recently appeared > that is a bit unsafe: > > we compute the HYP VA using the kern_hyp_va helper, but that helper > is only designed to deal with kernel VAs coming from the linear map, > and not from the vmalloc region... This could in turn cause some bad > aliasing between the two, amplified by the new VA randomisation. > > A solution is to come up with our very own basic VA allocator for > MMIO. Since half of the HYP address space only contains a single > page (the idmap), we have plenty to borrow from. Let's use the idmap > as a base, and allocate downwards from it. GICv2 now lives on the > other side of the great VA barrier. > > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> > --- > virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c > index 6192d45d1e1a..0597c9846f1a 100644 > --- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c > +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c [...] > @@ -721,7 +728,8 @@ int create_hyp_io_mappings(phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size, > void __iomem **kaddr, > void __iomem **haddr) > { > - unsigned long start, end; > + pgd_t *pgd = hyp_pgd; > + unsigned long base; > int ret; > > *kaddr = ioremap(phys_addr, size); > @@ -733,19 +741,26 @@ int create_hyp_io_mappings(phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size, > return 0; > } > > + mutex_lock(&io_map_lock); > + > + base = io_map_base - size; > + base &= ~(size - 1); > + Is it worth checking to see if we have "escaped" from our half of the HYP region? So something like? if (base ^ io_map_base & BIT(VA_BITS - 1)) allocationFailed... > + if (__kvm_cpu_uses_extended_idmap()) > + pgd = boot_hyp_pgd; > > - start = kern_hyp_va((unsigned long)*kaddr); > - end = kern_hyp_va((unsigned long)*kaddr + size); > - ret = __create_hyp_mappings(hyp_pgd, start, end, > + ret = __create_hyp_mappings(pgd, base, base + size, > __phys_to_pfn(phys_addr), PAGE_HYP_DEVICE); > > if (ret) { > iounmap(*kaddr); > *kaddr = NULL; > } else { > - *haddr = (void __iomem *)start; > + *haddr = (void __iomem *)base; > + io_map_base = base; > } > > + mutex_unlock(&io_map_lock); > return ret; > } > > @@ -1826,6 +1841,7 @@ int kvm_mmu_init(void) > goto out; > } > > + io_map_base = hyp_idmap_start; > return 0; > out: > free_hyp_pgds(); > -- > 2.14.2 > _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm