The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 7c8a4742c4abe205ec9daf416c9d42fd6b406e8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 23:30:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix write-protection of PTs mapped by the TDP
MMU
When the TDP MMU is write-protection GFNs for page table protection (as
opposed to for dirty logging, or due to the HVA not being writable), it
checks if the SPTE is already write-protected and if so skips modifying
the SPTE and the TLB flush.
This behavior is incorrect because it fails to check if the SPTE
is write-protected for page table protection, i.e. fails to check
that MMU-writable is '0'. If the SPTE was write-protected for dirty
logging but not page table protection, the SPTE could locklessly be made
writable, and vCPUs could still be running with writable mappings cached
in their TLB.
Fix this by only skipping setting the SPTE if the SPTE is already
write-protected *and* MMU-writable is already clear. Technically,
checking only MMU-writable would suffice; a SPTE cannot be writable
without MMU-writable being set. But check both to be paranoid and
because it arguably yields more readable code.
Fixes: 46044f72c382 ("kvm: x86/mmu: Support write protection for nesting in tdp MMU")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20220113233020.3986005-2-dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
index 7b1bc816b7c3..bc9e3553fba2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
@@ -1442,12 +1442,12 @@ static bool write_protect_gfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *root,
!is_last_spte(iter.old_spte, iter.level))
continue;
- if (!is_writable_pte(iter.old_spte))
- break;
-
new_spte = iter.old_spte &
~(PT_WRITABLE_MASK | shadow_mmu_writable_mask);
+ if (new_spte == iter.old_spte)
+ break;
+
tdp_mmu_set_spte(kvm, &iter, new_spte);
spte_set = true;
}
