Re: [PATCH] xen: remove size limit of privcmd-buf mapping interface

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Jan's remark regarding de-privileged qemu is no issue as the hypercall node is being closed by the de-privilege library function.

Juergen

On 01/11/2018 13:33, Juergen Gross wrote:

Currently the size of hypercall buffers allocated via /dev/xen/hypercall is limited to a default of 64 memory pages. For live migration of guests this might be too small as the page dirty bitmask needs to be sized according to the size of the guest. This means migrating a 8GB sized guest is already exhausting the default buffer size for the dirty bitmap.

There is no sensible way to set a sane limit, so just remove it completely. The device node's usage is limited to root anyway, so there is no additional DOS scenario added by allowing unlimited buffers.

While at it make the error path for the -ENOMEM case a little bit cleaner by setting n_pages to the number of successfully allocated pages instead of the target size.

Fixes: c51b3c639e01f2 ("xen: add new hypercall buffer mapping device") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.18 Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com

---

drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c | 22 ++++------------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c index df1ed37c3269..de01a6d0059d 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c +++ b/drivers/xen/privcmd-buf.c @@ -21,15 +21,9 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -static unsigned int limit = 64; -module_param(limit, uint, 0644); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(limit, "Maximum number of pages that may be allocated by "

• 	"the privcmd-buf device per open file");
  

struct privcmd_buf_private { struct mutex lock; struct list_head list;

• unsigned int allocated;

}; struct privcmd_buf_vma_private { @@ -60,13 +54,10 @@ static void privcmd_buf_vmapriv_free(struct privcmd_buf_vma_private *vma_priv) { unsigned int i;

• vma_priv->file_priv->allocated -= vma_priv->n_pages;
• list_del(&vma_priv->list);

for (i = 0; i < vma_priv->n_pages; i++)

• if (vma_priv->pages[i])
  

• 	__free_page(vma_priv->pages[i]);
  

• __free_page(vma_priv->pages[i]);
  

kfree(vma_priv); } @@ -146,8 +137,7 @@ static int privcmd_buf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma) unsigned int i; int ret = 0;

• if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) || count > limit ||

•    file_priv->allocated + count > limit)
  

• if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) return -EINVAL;

vma_priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*vma_priv) + count * sizeof(void *), @@ -155,19 +145,15 @@ static int privcmd_buf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma) if (!vma_priv) return -ENOMEM;

• vma_priv->n_pages = count;
• count = 0;
• for (i = 0; i < vma_priv->n_pages; i++) {

• for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { vma_priv->pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO); if (!vma_priv->pages[i]) break;

• count++;
  

• vma_priv->n_pages++;
  

  }

mutex_lock(&file_priv->lock);

• file_priv->allocated += count;
• vma_priv->file_priv = file_priv; vma_priv->users = 1;