linux/virt/kvm
Jia He 97418e968b KVM: arm/arm64: Remove excessive permission check in kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region
In kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region, arm kvm regards the memory region as
writable if the flag has no KVM_MEM_READONLY, and the vm is readonly if
!VM_WRITE.

But there is common usage for setting kvm memory region as follows:
e.g. qemu side (see the PROT_NONE flag)
1. mmap(NULL, size, PROT_NONE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
   memory_region_init_ram_ptr()
2. re mmap the above area with read/write authority.

Such example is used in virtio-fs qemu codes which hasn't been upstreamed
[1]. But seems we can't forbid this example.

Without this patch, it will cause an EPERM during kvm_set_memory_region()
and cause qemu boot crash.

As told by Ard, "the underlying assumption is incorrect, i.e., that the
value of vm_flags at this point in time defines how the VMA is used
during its lifetime. There may be other cases where a VMA is created
with VM_READ vm_flags that are changed to VM_READ|VM_WRITE later, and
we are currently rejecting this use case as well."

[1] https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/qemu/blob/5a356e/hw/virtio/vhost-user-fs.c#L488

Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191206020802.196108-1-justin.he@arm.com
2019-12-06 19:37:48 +00:00
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arm KVM: arm/arm64: Remove excessive permission check in kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region 2019-12-06 19:37:48 +00:00
async_pf.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 504 2019-06-19 17:09:56 +02:00
async_pf.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 504 2019-06-19 17:09:56 +02:00
coalesced_mmio.c KVM: coalesced_mmio: add bounds checking 2019-09-18 15:56:55 +02:00
coalesced_mmio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
eventfd.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 504 2019-06-19 17:09:56 +02:00
irqchip.c KVM/arm updates for 5.3 2019-07-11 15:14:16 +02:00
Kconfig KVM: polling: add architecture backend to disable polling 2019-04-26 09:08:17 +02:00
kvm_main.c KVM: Allow kvm_device_ops to be const 2019-10-21 19:20:28 +01:00
vfio.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
vfio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00