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| author | Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> | 2015-05-11 16:55:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2015-05-19 20:52:36 +0200 |
| commit | edc90b7dc4ceef62ef0ad9cc6c3f5dc770e83ad2 (patch) | |
| tree | 36a2ab127ab4f6a01fc33190abf3e06682f6ceba /Documentation | |
| parent | KVM: x86: Fix zero iterations REP-string (diff) | |
| download | linux-edc90b7dc4ceef62ef0ad9cc6c3f5dc770e83ad2.tar.xz linux-edc90b7dc4ceef62ef0ad9cc6c3f5dc770e83ad2.zip | |
KVM: MMU: fix SMAP virtualization
KVM may turn a user page to a kernel page when kernel writes a readonly
user page if CR0.WP = 1. This shadow page entry will be reused after
SMAP is enabled so that kernel is allowed to access this user page
Fix it by setting SMAP && !CR0.WP into shadow page's role and reset mmu
once CR4.SMAP is updated
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index 53838d9c6295..c59bd9bc41ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: Contains the value of cr4.smep && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid (pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the treatment of cr0.wp=0 below). + role.smap_andnot_wp: + Contains the value of cr4.smap && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid + (pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the + treatment of cr0.wp=0 below). gfn: Either the guest page table containing the translations shadowed by this page, or the base page frame for linear translations. See role.direct. @@ -344,10 +348,16 @@ on fault type: (user write faults generate a #PF) -In the first case there is an additional complication if CR4.SMEP is -enabled: since we've turned the page into a kernel page, the kernel may now -execute it. We handle this by also setting spte.nx. If we get a user -fetch or read fault, we'll change spte.u=1 and spte.nx=gpte.nx back. +In the first case there are two additional complications: +- if CR4.SMEP is enabled: since we've turned the page into a kernel page, + the kernel may now execute it. We handle this by also setting spte.nx. + If we get a user fetch or read fault, we'll change spte.u=1 and + spte.nx=gpte.nx back. +- if CR4.SMAP is disabled: since the page has been changed to a kernel + page, it can not be reused when CR4.SMAP is enabled. We set + CR4.SMAP && !CR0.WP into shadow page's role to avoid this case. Note, + here we do not care the case that CR4.SMAP is enabled since KVM will + directly inject #PF to guest due to failed permission check. To prevent an spte that was converted into a kernel page with cr0.wp=0 from being written by the kernel after cr0.wp has changed to 1, we make |