[PATCH 14/33] KVM: MMU: If emulating an instruction fails,try unprotecting the page

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Jan 04 2007 - 11:03:27 EST


A page table may have been recycled into a regular page, and so any
instruction can be executed on it. Unprotect the page and let the cpu
do its thing.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -478,11 +478,62 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_
return page;
}

+static void kvm_mmu_page_unlink_children(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
+ struct kvm_mmu_page *page)
+{
+ BUG();
+}
+
static void kvm_mmu_put_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
struct kvm_mmu_page *page,
u64 *parent_pte)
{
mmu_page_remove_parent_pte(page, parent_pte);
+ if (page->role.level > PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL)
+ kvm_mmu_page_unlink_children(vcpu, page);
+ hlist_del(&page->hash_link);
+ list_del(&page->link);
+ list_add(&page->link, &vcpu->free_pages);
+}
+
+static void kvm_mmu_zap_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
+ struct kvm_mmu_page *page)
+{
+ u64 *parent_pte;
+
+ while (page->multimapped || page->parent_pte) {
+ if (!page->multimapped)
+ parent_pte = page->parent_pte;
+ else {
+ struct kvm_pte_chain *chain;
+
+ chain = container_of(page->parent_ptes.first,
+ struct kvm_pte_chain, link);
+ parent_pte = chain->parent_ptes[0];
+ }
+ kvm_mmu_put_page(vcpu, page, parent_pte);
+ *parent_pte = 0;
+ }
+}
+
+static int kvm_mmu_unprotect_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn)
+{
+ unsigned index;
+ struct hlist_head *bucket;
+ struct kvm_mmu_page *page;
+ struct hlist_node *node, *n;
+ int r;
+
+ pgprintk("%s: looking for gfn %lx\n", __FUNCTION__, gfn);
+ r = 0;
+ index = kvm_page_table_hashfn(gfn) % KVM_NUM_MMU_PAGES;
+ bucket = &vcpu->kvm->mmu_page_hash[index];
+ hlist_for_each_entry_safe(page, node, n, bucket, hash_link)
+ if (page->gfn == gfn && !page->role.metaphysical) {
+ kvm_mmu_zap_page(vcpu, page);
+ r = 1;
+ }
+ return r;
}

static void page_header_update_slot(struct kvm *kvm, void *pte, gpa_t gpa)
@@ -1001,6 +1052,13 @@ void kvm_mmu_post_write(struct kvm_vcpu
{
}

+int kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva)
+{
+ gpa_t gpa = vcpu->mmu.gva_to_gpa(vcpu, gva);
+
+ return kvm_mmu_unprotect_page(vcpu, gpa >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+}
+
static void free_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
while (!list_empty(&vcpu->free_pages)) {
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1063,6 +1063,8 @@ int emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu
}

if (r) {
+ if (kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt(vcpu, cr2))
+ return EMULATE_DONE;
if (!vcpu->mmio_needed) {
report_emulation_failure(&emulate_ctxt);
return EMULATE_FAIL;
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ unsigned long segment_base(u16 selector)

void kvm_mmu_pre_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, int bytes);
void kvm_mmu_post_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, int bytes);
+int kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva);

static inline struct page *_gfn_to_page(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
{
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