From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, sstabellini@kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: remove size limit of privcmd-buf mapping interface
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 08:03:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e60dacf6-9674-8fd6-d93c-a412667c5d6f@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181101123307.8424-1-jgross@suse.com>
Ping?
Jan's remark regarding de-privileged qemu is no issue as the hypercall
node is being closed by the de-privilege library function.
Juergen
On 01/11/2018 13:33, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Currently the size of hypercall buffers allocated via
> /dev/xen/hypercall is limited to a default of 64 memory pages. For live
> migration of guests this might be too small as the page dirty bitmask
> needs to be sized according to the size of the guest. This means
> migrating a 8GB sized guest is already exhausting the default buffer
> size for the dirty bitmap.
>
> There is no sensible way to set a sane limit, so just remove it
> completely. The device node's usage is limited to root anyway, so there
> is no additional DOS scenario added by allowing unlimited buffers.
>
> While at it make the error path for the -ENOMEM case a little bit
> cleaner by setting n_pages to the number of successfully allocated
> pages instead of the target size.
>
> Fixes: c51b3c639e01f2 ("xen: add new hypercall buffer mapping device")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.18
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> ---
> drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c | 22 ++++------------------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c
> index df1ed37c3269..de01a6d0059d 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c
> @@ -21,15 +21,9 @@
>
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> -static unsigned int limit = 64;
> -module_param(limit, uint, 0644);
> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(limit, "Maximum number of pages that may be allocated by "
> - "the privcmd-buf device per open file");
> -
> struct privcmd_buf_private {
> struct mutex lock;
> struct list_head list;
> - unsigned int allocated;
> };
>
> struct privcmd_buf_vma_private {
> @@ -60,13 +54,10 @@ static void privcmd_buf_vmapriv_free(struct privcmd_buf_vma_private *vma_priv)
> {
> unsigned int i;
>
> - vma_priv->file_priv->allocated -= vma_priv->n_pages;
> -
> list_del(&vma_priv->list);
>
> for (i = 0; i < vma_priv->n_pages; i++)
> - if (vma_priv->pages[i])
> - __free_page(vma_priv->pages[i]);
> + __free_page(vma_priv->pages[i]);
>
> kfree(vma_priv);
> }
> @@ -146,8 +137,7 @@ static int privcmd_buf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> unsigned int i;
> int ret = 0;
>
> - if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) || count > limit ||
> - file_priv->allocated + count > limit)
> + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> vma_priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*vma_priv) + count * sizeof(void *),
> @@ -155,19 +145,15 @@ static int privcmd_buf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> if (!vma_priv)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - vma_priv->n_pages = count;
> - count = 0;
> - for (i = 0; i < vma_priv->n_pages; i++) {
> + for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
> vma_priv->pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
> if (!vma_priv->pages[i])
> break;
> - count++;
> + vma_priv->n_pages++;
> }
>
> mutex_lock(&file_priv->lock);
>
> - file_priv->allocated += count;
> -
> vma_priv->file_priv = file_priv;
> vma_priv->users = 1;
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-09 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-01 12:33 [PATCH] xen: remove size limit of privcmd-buf mapping interface Juergen Gross
2018-11-01 14:18 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2018-11-01 14:23 ` Juergen Gross
2018-11-01 15:50 ` Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <5BDB20AB020000780014251B@suse.com>
2018-11-01 16:27 ` Juergen Gross
2018-11-02 7:26 ` Jan Beulich
2018-11-01 14:23 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-11-09 7:03 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2018-11-09 14:23 ` Boris Ostrovsky
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