From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix per-cpu counter corruption on 32-bit builds
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 14:46:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210804214609.1096003-1-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
Take a signed 'long' instead of an 'unsigned long' for the number of
pages to add/subtract to the total number of pages used by the MMU. This
fixes a zero-extension bug on 32-bit kernels that effectively corrupts
the per-cpu counter used by the shrinker.
Per-cpu counters take a signed 64-bit value on both 32-bit and 64-bit
kernels, whereas kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages() takes an unsigned long and thus
an unsigned 32-bit value on 32-bit kernels. As a result, the value used
to adjust the per-cpu counter is zero-extended (unsigned -> signed), not
sign-extended (signed -> signed), and so KVM's intended -1 gets morphed to
4294967295 and effectively corrupts the counter.
This was found by a staggering amount of sheer dumb luck when running
kvm-unit-tests on a 32-bit KVM build. The shrinker just happened to kick
in while running tests and do_shrink_slab() logged an error about trying
to free a negative number of objects. The truly lucky part is that the
kernel just happened to be a slightly stale build, as the shrinker no
longer yells about negative objects as of commit 18bb473e5031 ("mm:
vmscan: shrink deferred objects proportional to priority").
vmscan: shrink_slab: mmu_shrink_scan+0x0/0x210 [kvm] negative objects to delete nr=-858993460
Fixes: bc8a3d8925a8 ("kvm: mmu: Fix overflow on kvm mmu page limit calculation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index b4b65c21b2ca..082a0ba79edd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -1700,7 +1700,7 @@ static int is_empty_shadow_page(u64 *spt)
* aggregate version in order to make the slab shrinker
* faster
*/
-static inline void kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long nr)
+static inline void kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm, long nr)
{
kvm->arch.n_used_mmu_pages += nr;
percpu_counter_add(&kvm_total_used_mmu_pages, nr);
--
2.32.0.554.ge1b32706d8-goog
next reply other threads:[~2021-08-04 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-04 21:46 Sean Christopherson [this message]
2021-08-04 22:19 ` [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix per-cpu counter corruption on 32-bit builds Jim Mattson
2021-08-05 7:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-08-05 11:26 ` Maxim Levitsky
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