Re: [PATCH v3] kvm: x86: fix stale mmio cache bug

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On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Xiao Guangrong
<xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/08/2014 02:32 AM, David Matlack wrote:
>> The following events can lead to an incorrect KVM_EXIT_MMIO bubbling
>> up to userspace:
>>
>> (1) Guest accesses gpa X without a memory slot. The gfn is cached in
>> struct kvm_vcpu_arch (mmio_gfn). On Intel EPT-enabled hosts, KVM sets
>> the SPTE write-execute-noread so that future accesses cause
>> EPT_MISCONFIGs.
>>
>> (2) Host userspace creates a memory slot via KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
>> covering the page just accessed.
>>
>> (3) Guest attempts to read or write to gpa X again. On Intel, this
>> generates an EPT_MISCONFIG. The memory slot generation number that
>> was incremented in (2) would normally take care of this but we fast
>> path mmio faults through quickly_check_mmio_pf(), which only checks
>> the per-vcpu mmio cache. Since we hit the cache, KVM passes a
>> KVM_EXIT_MMIO up to userspace.
>>
>> This patch fixes the issue by using the memslot generation number
>> to validate the mmio cache.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> The patch diff is rather large because I had to pull some code out
>> of x86.h and mmu.c and into mmu.h. The main change is adding the
>> memslot generation in vcpu_cach_mmio_info() and then validating
>> that slot in vcpu_match_mmio_*().
>
> Why not just move vcpu_cach_mmio_info() into mmu.c where is
> the only place vcpu_cach_mmio_info is called. :)

If only it was so simple :). vcpu_match_mmio_*() now needs
kvm_current_mmio_generation() which *was* in mmu.c.
vcpu_match_mmio_*() is called from x86.c and mmu.c so all that
has to go in a header. I decided to keep vcpu_cache_mmio_info()
with the  rest for organization's sake.

> BTW, i will post a patch to fix the generation-number issue
> soon.
>
>

Great! Thanks.
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