[RFC PATCH] KVM: arm64: Fix double-free following kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_unlinked()

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Feb 12 2024 - 14:31:08 EST


kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_unlinked() does the final put_page() on the
root page of the sub-tree before returning, so remove the additional
put_page() invocations in the callers.

Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi folks,

Sending this as an RFC as I only spotted it from code inspection and I'm
surprised others aren't seeing fireworks if it's a genuine bug. I also
couldn't come up with a sensible Fixes tag, as all of:

e7c05540c694b ("KVM: arm64: Add helper for creating unlinked stage2 subtrees")
8f5a3eb7513fc ("KVM: arm64: Add kvm_pgtable_stage2_split()")
f6a27d6dc51b2 ("KVM: arm64: Drop last page ref in kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_removed()")

are actually ok in isolation. Hrm. Please tell me I'm wrong?

arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index c651df904fe3..ab9d05fcf98b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -1419,7 +1419,6 @@ kvm_pte_t *kvm_pgtable_stage2_create_unlinked(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt,
level + 1);
if (ret) {
kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_unlinked(mm_ops, pgtable, level);
- mm_ops->put_page(pgtable);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}

@@ -1502,7 +1501,6 @@ static int stage2_split_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,

if (!stage2_try_break_pte(ctx, mmu)) {
kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_unlinked(mm_ops, childp, level);
- mm_ops->put_page(childp);
return -EAGAIN;
}

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