Re: [PATCH v4 03/29] drm/i915/gvt: Verify hugepages are contiguous in physical address space

From: Yan Zhao
Date: Mon Jul 31 2023 - 22:14:22 EST


Reviewed-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 06:35:09PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> When shadowing a GTT entry with a 2M page, verify that the pfns are
> contiguous, not just that the struct page pointers are contiguous. The
> memory map is virtual contiguous if "CONFIG_FLATMEM=y ||
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y", but not for "CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y &&
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n", so theoretically KVMGT could encounter struct
> pages that are virtually contiguous, but not physically contiguous.
>
> In practice, this flaw is likely a non-issue as it would cause functional
> problems iff a section isn't 2M aligned _and_ is directly adjacent to
> another section with discontiguous pfns.
>
> Tested-by: Yongwei Ma <yongwei.ma@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
> index de675d799c7d..429f0f993a13 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static int gvt_pin_guest_page(struct intel_vgpu *vgpu, unsigned long gfn,
>
> if (npage == 0)
> base_page = cur_page;
> - else if (base_page + npage != cur_page) {
> + else if (page_to_pfn(base_page) + npage != page_to_pfn(cur_page)) {
> gvt_vgpu_err("The pages are not continuous\n");
> ret = -EINVAL;
> npage++;
> --
> 2.41.0.487.g6d72f3e995-goog
>