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| author | Sean Christopherson | 2021-08-04 14:46:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini | 2021-08-05 03:33:56 -0400 |
| commit | d5aaad6f83420efb8357ac8e11c868708b22d0a9 (patch) | |
| tree | a0743eb830cbe9ac852353874ee25c4b49566eba /arch | |
| parent | 13c2c3cfe01952575b1dd5e24d450fcccff93bc0 (diff) | |
KVM: x86/mmu: Fix per-cpu counter corruption on 32-bit builds
Take a signed 'long' instead of an 'unsigned long' for the number of
pages to add/subtract to the total number of pages used by the MMU. This
fixes a zero-extension bug on 32-bit kernels that effectively corrupts
the per-cpu counter used by the shrinker.
Per-cpu counters take a signed 64-bit value on both 32-bit and 64-bit
kernels, whereas kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages() takes an unsigned long and thus
an unsigned 32-bit value on 32-bit kernels. As a result, the value used
to adjust the per-cpu counter is zero-extended (unsigned -> signed), not
sign-extended (signed -> signed), and so KVM's intended -1 gets morphed to
4294967295 and effectively corrupts the counter.
This was found by a staggering amount of sheer dumb luck when running
kvm-unit-tests on a 32-bit KVM build. The shrinker just happened to kick
in while running tests and do_shrink_slab() logged an error about trying
to free a negative number of objects. The truly lucky part is that the
kernel just happened to be a slightly stale build, as the shrinker no
longer yells about negative objects as of commit 18bb473e5031 ("mm:
vmscan: shrink deferred objects proportional to priority").
vmscan: shrink_slab: mmu_shrink_scan+0x0/0x210 [kvm] negative objects to delete nr=-858993460
Fixes: bc8a3d8925a8 ("kvm: mmu: Fix overflow on kvm mmu page limit calculation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210804214609.1096003-1-seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c index 66f7f5bc3482..c4f4fa23320e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c @@ -1644,7 +1644,7 @@ static int is_empty_shadow_page(u64 *spt) * aggregate version in order to make the slab shrinker * faster */ -static inline void kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long nr) +static inline void kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm, long nr) { kvm->arch.n_used_mmu_pages += nr; percpu_counter_add(&kvm_total_used_mmu_pages, nr); |