Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: MMU: fix SMAP virtualization

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Fri May 22 2015 - 16:43:28 EST


On 05/11/2015 10:55 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---



@@ -4208,12 +4211,18 @@ void kvm_mmu_pte_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
const u8 *new, int bytes)
{
gfn_t gfn = gpa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- union kvm_mmu_page_role mask = { .word = 0 };
struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
LIST_HEAD(invalid_list);
u64 entry, gentry, *spte;
int npte;
bool remote_flush, local_flush, zap_page;
+ union kvm_mmu_page_role mask = (union kvm_mmu_page_role) {
+ .cr0_wp = 1,
+ .cr4_pae = 1,
+ .nxe = 1,
+ .smep_andnot_wp = 1,
+ .smap_andnot_wp = 1,
+ };




This breaks older compilers that can't initialize anon structures.

-boris
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