From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> We don't hold the mmap_sem while searching for VMAs (via find_vma), in kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region, which can end up in expected failures. Fixes: commit 8eef91239e57 ("arm/arm64: KVM: map MMIO regions at creation time") Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.18+ Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> [ Handle dirty page logging failure case ] Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c index f2e2e0c..13b9c1f 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c @@ -1803,6 +1803,7 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, (KVM_PHYS_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT)) return -EFAULT; + down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); /* * A memory region could potentially cover multiple VMAs, and any holes * between them, so iterate over all of them to find out if we can map @@ -1846,8 +1847,10 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, pa += vm_start - vma->vm_start; /* IO region dirty page logging not allowed */ - if (memslot->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES) - return -EINVAL; + if (memslot->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } ret = kvm_phys_addr_ioremap(kvm, gpa, pa, vm_end - vm_start, @@ -1859,7 +1862,7 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, } while (hva < reg_end); if (change == KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY) - return ret; + goto out; spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock); if (ret) @@ -1867,6 +1870,8 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, else stage2_flush_memslot(kvm, memslot); spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock); +out: + up_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); return ret; } -- 2.7.4