This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm/arm64: KVM: Take mmap_sem in kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm-arm64-kvm-take-mmap_sem-in-kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 72f310481a08db821b614e7b5d00febcc9064b36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:20:50 +0000 Subject: arm/arm64: KVM: Take mmap_sem in kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> commit 72f310481a08db821b614e7b5d00febcc9064b36 upstream. 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> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Handle dirty page logging failure case ] Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c @@ -1806,6 +1806,7 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struc (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 @@ -1849,8 +1850,10 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struc 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, @@ -1862,7 +1865,7 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struc } while (hva < reg_end); if (change == KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY) - return ret; + goto out; spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock); if (ret) @@ -1870,6 +1873,8 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struc else stage2_flush_memslot(kvm, memslot); spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock); +out: + up_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx are queue-4.10/kvm-arm-arm64-fix-locking-for-kvm_free_stage2_pgd.patch queue-4.10/arm-arm64-kvm-take-mmap_sem-in-kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region.patch queue-4.10/arm-arm64-kvm-take-mmap_sem-in-stage2_unmap_vm.patch