Re: gva_to_gpa function internals

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On 01/12/2015 19:30, Yacine HEBBAL wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to build some tools on top of kvm in order to debug, monitor and
> reverse engineer the guest OS (ubuntu 12.04, 32 bits)
> One of my tools walks through (and prints) the guest paging data structures
> as following: cr3 -> pdpte -> pde -> pte -> page (PAE paging, 32 bits)
> 
> According to my logs some accessed kernel PTEs are not present (pte =
> 9090909090909090) in all processes address spaces (even from init process
> cr3), however when I use the function kvm_read_guest_virt_helper on their
> corresponding virtual addresses (GVAs), I get a correct content (content
> correctness checked using system.map file).
> Just after calling kvm_read_guest_virt_helper, I check again the PTE
> corresponding to the read gva, I see that they are unmapped (invalid, always
> 9090909090909090)
> 
> I investigated a little the code of kvm_read_guest_virt_helper, this
> function calls vcpu->arch.walk_mmu->gva_to_gpa(vcpu, gva, ...) which in turn
> calls other functions until FNAME(walk_addr_generic) which seems to do the
> translation.
> walk_addr_generic seems to do the translation starting from cr3 of the
> current process (in line: mmu->get_cr3(vcpu);) and works fine regardless of
> the identity of the current process (i.e. current cr3).
> 
> So how the function gva_to_gpa is able to the read correctly any GVA that my
> tool sees invalid (unmapped) in the paging structures, knowing that my tool
> is able to read and display correctly a content of (thousands) many other GVAs ?
> I would be very thankful for any feedback :)

Unfortunately that's impossible to know without knowing your tool.  How
does it read guest memory?

Paolo
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