Re: [PATCH v10 01/19] KVM: s390: pv: leak the topmost page table when destroy fails

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On 4/14/22 10:02, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
Each secure guest must have a unique ASCE (address space control
element); we must avoid that new guests use the same page for their
ASCE, to avoid errors.

Since the ASCE mostly consists of the address of the topmost page table
(plus some flags), we must not return that memory to the pool unless
the ASCE is no longer in use.

Only a successful Destroy Secure Configuration UVC will make the ASCE
reusable again.

If the Destroy Configuration UVC fails, the ASCE cannot be reused for a
secure guest (either for the ASCE or for other memory areas). To avoid
a collision, it must not be used again. This is a permanent error and
the page becomes in practice unusable, so we set it aside and leak it.
On failure we already leak other memory that belongs to the ultravisor
(i.e. the variable and base storage for a guest) and not leaking the
topmost page table was an oversight.

This error (and thus the leakage) should not happen unless the hardware
is broken or KVM has some unknown serious bug.


Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

+	/*
+	 * In case the ASCE needs to be "removed" multiple times, for example
+	 * if the VM is rebooted into secure mode several times
+	 * concurrently, or if s390_replace_asce fails after calling
+	 * s390_remove_old_asce and is attempted again later. In that case
+	 * the old asce has been removed from the list, and therefore it
+	 * will not be freed when the VM terminates, but the ASCE is still
+	 * in use and still pointed to.
+	 * A subsequent call to replace_asce will follow the pointer and try
+	 * to remove the same page from the list again.
+	 * Therefore it's necessary that the page of the ASCE has valid
+	 * pointers, so list_del can work (and do nothing) without
+	 * dereferencing stale or invalid pointers.
+	 */
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&old->lru);
+	spin_unlock(&gmap->guest_table_lock);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(s390_remove_old_asce);
+
+/**
+ * s390_replace_asce - Try to replace the current ASCE of a gmap with
+ * another equivalent one.

with a copy?

+ * @gmap the gmap
+ *
+ * If the allocation of the new top level page table fails, the ASCE is not
+ * replaced.
+ * In any case, the old ASCE is always removed from the list. Therefore the

removed from the gmap crst list

+ * caller has to make sure to save a pointer to it beforehands, unless an
+ * intentional leak is intended.
+ */
+int s390_replace_asce(struct gmap *gmap)
+{
+	unsigned long asce;
+	struct page *page;
+	void *table;
+
+	s390_remove_old_asce(gmap);
+
+	page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, CRST_ALLOC_ORDER);
+	if (!page)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	table = page_to_virt(page);
+	memcpy(table, gmap->table, 1UL << (CRST_ALLOC_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT));
+
+	/*
+	 * The caller has to deal with the old ASCE, but here we make sure
+	 * the new one is properly added to the list of page tables, so that
+	 * it will be freed when the VM is torn down.
+	 */
+	spin_lock(&gmap->guest_table_lock);
+	list_add(&page->lru, &gmap->crst_list);
+	spin_unlock(&gmap->guest_table_lock);
+
+	/* Set new table origin while preserving existing ASCE control bits */
+	asce = (gmap->asce & ~_ASCE_ORIGIN) | __pa(table);
+	WRITE_ONCE(gmap->asce, asce);
+	WRITE_ONCE(gmap->mm->context.gmap_asce, asce);
+	WRITE_ONCE(gmap->table, table);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(s390_replace_asce);




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