Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] kasan: introduce set_pmd_early_shadow()

From: JÃrgen GroÃ
Date: Wed Jan 15 2020 - 06:12:03 EST


On 15.01.20 11:54, Sergey Dyasli wrote:
Hi Juergen,

On 08/01/2020 15:20, Sergey Dyasli wrote:
It is incorrect to call pmd_populate_kernel() multiple times for the
same page table. Xen notices it during kasan_populate_early_shadow():

(XEN) mm.c:3222:d155v0 mfn 3704b already pinned

This happens for kasan_early_shadow_pte when USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS is
enabled. Fix this by introducing set_pmd_early_shadow() which calls
pmd_populate_kernel() only once and uses set_pmd() afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Dyasli <sergey.dyasli@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks like the plan to use set_pmd() directly has failed: it's an
arch-specific function and can't be used in arch-independent code
(as kbuild test robot has proven).

Do you see any way out of this other than disabling SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS
for PV KASAN?

Change set_pmd_early_shadow() like the following:

#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_PV
static inline void set_pmd_early_shadow(pmd_t *pmd, pte_t *early_shadow)
{
static bool pmd_populated = false;

if (likely(pmd_populated)) {
set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(__pa(early_shadow) | _PAGE_TABLE));
} else {
pmd_populate_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, early_shadow);
pmd_populated = true;
}
}
#else
static inline void set_pmd_early_shadow(pmd_t *pmd, pte_t *early_shadow)
{
pmd_populate_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, early_shadow);
}
#endif

... and move it to include/xen/xen-ops.h and call it with
lm_alias(kasan_early_shadow_pte) as the second parameter.


Juergen