Re: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: s390: Fix skey emulation permission check

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On 05.12.2017 10:13, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue,  5 Dec 2017 09:33:21 +0100
> Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> From: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> All skey functions call skey_check_enable at their start, which checks
>> if we are in the PSTATE and injects a privileged operation exception
>> if we are.
>>
>> Unfortunately they continue processing afterwards and perform the
>> operation anyhow as skey_check_enable does not deliver an error if the
>> exception injection was successful.
>>
>> Let's move the PSTATE check into the skey functions and exit them on
>> such an occasion, also we now do not enable skey handling anymore in
>> such a case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Fixes: a7e19ab ("KVM: s390: handle missing storage-key facility")
>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.8+
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/s390/kvm/priv.c | 11 +++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> 
> This reminds me of something I stumbled upon the other day:
> 
> handle_ri() and handle_gs() (both implemented in priv.c) don't seem to
> have a check for PSTATE, yet they enable ri/gs before retrying the
> instruction. Is that correct?
> 

None of the gs instructions are privileged as far as I know. Same seems
to be true for ri as far as I've scanned the spec.

The privileged parts are the control register and PSW changes which are
handled elsewhere.

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