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* [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: MMU: Fix a refcount bug with ZONE_DEVICE pages
@ 2019-11-11 22:12 Sean Christopherson
  2019-11-11 22:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: MMU: Do not treat ZONE_DEVICE pages as being reserved Sean Christopherson
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From: Sean Christopherson @ 2019-11-11 22:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paolo Bonzini, Radim Krčmář
  Cc: Sean Christopherson, Vitaly Kuznetsov, Wanpeng Li, Jim Mattson,
	Joerg Roedel, kvm, linux-kernel, Adam Borowski,
	David Hildenbrand, Dan Williams

This mini-series fixes a suspected, but technically unconfirmed, bug in
KVM related to ZONE_DEVICE pages.  The suspected issue is that KVM treats
ZONE_DEVICE pages as reserved PFNs, and so doesn't put references to such
pages when dropping references via KVM's generic kvm_release_pfn_clean().

David Hildenbrand uncovered the bug during a discussion about removing
PG_reserved from ZONE_DEVICE pages, after Dan Williams pointed out[1] that
there was a bug report from Adam Borowski[2] that was likely related to
KVM's interaction with PageReserved().

Patch 1/3 contains the actual fix, patches 2/3 and 3/3 are minor cleanup
that is mostly unrelated, but dependent and prompted by the fix itself.

v2:
  - Remove the kvm_is_zone_device_pfn(pfn) check from kvm_get_pfn().  It's
    not entirely clear whether or not the hva_to_pfn_remapped() case is
    actually broken, e.g. KVM's page fault handler is likely ok, whereas
    not calling get_page() willl definitely cause breakage as KVM would
    later call put_page() on the pfn/page. [Paolo]

  - WARN if kvm_is_zone_device_pfn() is called without the underlying
    page being pinned.  This won't necessarily catch all bugs, e.g. if
    the above hva_to_pfn_remapped case is indeed broken, but will
    prevent completely bogus usage. [Dan]

  - Remove the is_error_pfn() check from transparent_hugepage_adjust()
    instead of carrying it forward into the new kvm_is_hugepage_allowed()
    helper. [Paolo]

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190919115547.GA17963@angband.pl
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/01adb4cb-6092-638c-0bab-e61322be7cf5@redhat.com

Sean Christopherson (3):
  KVM: MMU: Do not treat ZONE_DEVICE pages as being reserved
  KVM: x86/mmu: Remove superfluous is_error_pfn() check from THP adjust
  KVM: x86/mmu: Add helper to consolidate huge page promotion

 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c       | 15 +++++++++------
 include/linux/kvm_host.h |  1 +
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c      | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

-- 
2.24.0


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2019-11-11 22:20   ` Paolo Bonzini
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2019-11-12  7:06   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-11 22:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove superfluous is_error_pfn() check from THP adjust Sean Christopherson
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