6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com
commit 2867eb782cf7f64c2ac427596133b6f9c3f64b7a upstream.
Apply make_spte()'s optimization to skip trying to unsync shadow pages if and only if the old SPTE was a leaf SPTE, as non-leaf SPTEs in direct MMUs are always writable, i.e. could trigger a false positive and incorrectly lead to KVM creating a SPTE without write-protecting or marking shadow pages unsync.
This bug only affects the TDP MMU, as the shadow MMU only overwrites a shadow-present SPTE when synchronizing SPTEs (and only 4KiB SPTEs can be unsync). Specifically, mmu_set_spte() drops any non-leaf SPTEs *before* calling make_spte(), whereas the TDP MMU can do a direct replacement of a page table with the leaf SPTE.
Opportunistically update the comment to explain why skipping the unsync stuff is safe, as opposed to simply saying "it's someone else's problem".
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Alex Bennée alex.bennee@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Message-ID: 20241010182427.1434605-5-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c @@ -194,12 +194,20 @@ bool make_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, st spte |= PT_WRITABLE_MASK | shadow_mmu_writable_mask;
/* - * Optimization: for pte sync, if spte was writable the hash - * lookup is unnecessary (and expensive). Write protection - * is responsibility of kvm_mmu_get_page / kvm_mmu_sync_roots. - * Same reasoning can be applied to dirty page accounting. + * When overwriting an existing leaf SPTE, and the old SPTE was + * writable, skip trying to unsync shadow pages as any relevant + * shadow pages must already be unsync, i.e. the hash lookup is + * unnecessary (and expensive). + * + * The same reasoning applies to dirty page/folio accounting; + * KVM will mark the folio dirty using the old SPTE, thus + * there's no need to immediately mark the new SPTE as dirty. + * + * Note, both cases rely on KVM not changing PFNs without first + * zapping the old SPTE, which is guaranteed by both the shadow + * MMU and the TDP MMU. */ - if (is_writable_pte(old_spte)) + if (is_last_spte(old_spte, level) && is_writable_pte(old_spte)) goto out;
/*