On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 08:20:31AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> The kvm_age_hva callback may be called all the way concurrently while
> kvm_mmu_notifier_release() is running.
>
> The release function sets kvm->arch.pgd = NULL which the aging function
> however implicitly relies on in stage2_get_pud(). That means they can
> race and the aging function may dereference a NULL pgd pointer.
>
> This patch adds a check for that case, so that we leave the aging
> function silently.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 293f29363 ("kvm-arm: Unmap shadow pagetables properly")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> - Fix commit message
> - Add Fixes and stable tags
> ---
> virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> index f2d5b6c..227931f 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> @@ -861,6 +861,10 @@ static pud_t *stage2_get_pud(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache
> pgd_t *pgd;
> pud_t *pud;
>
> + /* Do we clash with kvm_free_stage2_pgd()? */
> + if (!kvm->arch.pgd)
> + return NULL;
> +
> pgd = kvm->arch.pgd + stage2_pgd_index(addr);
> if (WARN_ON(stage2_pgd_none(*pgd))) {
> if (!cache)
> --
> 1.8.5.6
>
