On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 04:49:02PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> So far, we loose the Exec property whenever we take permission
> faults, as we always reconstruct the PTE/PMD from scratch. This
> can be counter productive as we can end-up with the following
> fault sequence:
>
> X -> RO -> ROX -> RW -> RWX
>
> Instead, we can lookup the existing PTE/PMD and clear the XN bit in the
> new entry if it was already cleared in the old one, leadig to a much
> nicer fault sequence:
>
> X -> ROX -> RWX
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 10 ++++++++++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 10 ++++++++++
> virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> index 4d7a54cbb3ab..aab64fe52146 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> @@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ static inline bool kvm_s2pte_readonly(pte_t *pte)
> return (pte_val(*pte) & L_PTE_S2_RDWR) == L_PTE_S2_RDONLY;
> }
>
> +static inline bool kvm_s2pte_exec(pte_t *pte)
> +{
> + return !(pte_val(*pte) & L_PTE_XN);
> +}
> +
> static inline void kvm_set_s2pmd_readonly(pmd_t *pmd)
> {
> pmd_val(*pmd) = (pmd_val(*pmd) & ~L_PMD_S2_RDWR) | L_PMD_S2_RDONLY;
> @@ -117,6 +122,11 @@ static inline bool kvm_s2pmd_readonly(pmd_t *pmd)
> return (pmd_val(*pmd) & L_PMD_S2_RDWR) == L_PMD_S2_RDONLY;
> }
>
> +static inline bool kvm_s2pmd_exec(pmd_t *pmd)
> +{
> + return !(pmd_val(*pmd) & PMD_SECT_XN);
> +}
> +
> static inline bool kvm_page_empty(void *ptr)
> {
> struct page *ptr_page = virt_to_page(ptr);
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> index 1e1b20cb348f..126abefffe7f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
> @@ -203,6 +203,11 @@ static inline bool kvm_s2pte_readonly(pte_t *pte)
> return (pte_val(*pte) & PTE_S2_RDWR) == PTE_S2_RDONLY;
> }
>
> +static inline bool kvm_s2pte_exec(pte_t *pte)
> +{
> + return !(pte_val(*pte) & PTE_S2_XN);
> +}
> +
> static inline void kvm_set_s2pmd_readonly(pmd_t *pmd)
> {
> kvm_set_s2pte_readonly((pte_t *)pmd);
> @@ -213,6 +218,11 @@ static inline bool kvm_s2pmd_readonly(pmd_t *pmd)
> return kvm_s2pte_readonly((pte_t *)pmd);
> }
>
> +static inline bool kvm_s2pmd_exec(pmd_t *pmd)
> +{
> + return !(pmd_val(*pmd) & PMD_S2_XN);
> +}
> +
> static inline bool kvm_page_empty(void *ptr)
> {
> struct page *ptr_page = virt_to_page(ptr);
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> index f956efbd933d..b83b5a8442bb 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> @@ -926,6 +926,25 @@ static int stage2_set_pmd_huge(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static bool stage2_is_exec(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t addr)
> +{
> + pmd_t *pmdp;
> + pte_t *ptep;
> +
> + pmdp = stage2_get_pmd(kvm, NULL, addr);
> + if (!pmdp || pmd_none(*pmdp) || !pmd_present(*pmdp))
> + return false;
> +
> + if (pmd_thp_or_huge(*pmdp))
> + return kvm_s2pmd_exec(pmdp);
> +
> + ptep = pte_offset_kernel(pmdp, addr);
> + if (!ptep || pte_none(*ptep) || !pte_present(*ptep))
> + return false;
> +
> + return kvm_s2pte_exec(ptep);
> +}
> +
> static int stage2_set_pte(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
> phys_addr_t addr, const pte_t *new_pte,
> unsigned long flags)
> @@ -1407,6 +1426,10 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> if (exec_fault) {
> new_pmd = kvm_s2pmd_mkexec(new_pmd);
> invalidate_icache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PMD_SIZE);
> + } else if (fault_status == FSC_PERM) {
> + /* Preserve execute if XN was already cleared */
> + if (stage2_is_exec(kvm, fault_ipa))
> + new_pmd = kvm_s2pmd_mkexec(new_pmd);
> }
>
> ret = stage2_set_pmd_huge(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pmd);
> @@ -1425,6 +1448,10 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> if (exec_fault) {
> new_pte = kvm_s2pte_mkexec(new_pte);
> invalidate_icache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PAGE_SIZE);
> + } else if (fault_status == FSC_PERM) {
> + /* Preserve execute if XN was already cleared */
> + if (stage2_is_exec(kvm, fault_ipa))
> + new_pte = kvm_s2pte_mkexec(new_pte);
> }
>
> ret = stage2_set_pte(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pte, flags);
> --
> 2.14.1
>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
