[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Set the MTE tag bit before releasing the page

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Thu Jun 24 2021 - 09:21:05 EST


Setting a page flag without holding a reference to the page
is living dangerously. In the tag-writing path, we drop the
reference to the page by calling kvm_release_pfn_dirty(),
and only then set the PG_mte_tagged bit.

It would be safer to do it the other way round.

Fixes: f0376edb1ddca ("KVM: arm64: Add ioctl to fetch/store tags in a guest")
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
index 4ddb20017b2f..60815ae477cf 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
@@ -1053,6 +1053,14 @@ long kvm_vm_ioctl_mte_copy_tags(struct kvm *kvm,
} else {
num_tags = mte_copy_tags_from_user(maddr, tags,
MTE_GRANULES_PER_PAGE);
+
+ /*
+ * Set the flag after checking the write
+ * completed fully
+ */
+ if (num_tags == MTE_GRANULES_PER_PAGE)
+ set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags);
+
kvm_release_pfn_dirty(pfn);
}

@@ -1061,10 +1069,6 @@ long kvm_vm_ioctl_mte_copy_tags(struct kvm *kvm,
goto out;
}

- /* Set the flag after checking the write completed fully */
- if (write)
- set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags);
-
gfn++;
tags += num_tags;
length -= PAGE_SIZE;
--
2.30.2


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