Re: [PATCH 0/6] KVM: Remove uses of struct page from x86 and arm64 MMU
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date: 2021-06-24 12:00:36
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On 24/06/21 13:42, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
+static int kvm_try_get_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
+{
+ if (kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn))
+ return 1;So !pfn_valid would always return true. Yeah, this should work and is certainly appealing! Paolo
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+ return get_page_unless_zero(pfn_to_page(pfn)); +} + static int hva_to_pfn_remapped(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, bool *async, bool write_fault, bool *writable,@@ -2104,13 +2111,21 @@ static int hva_to_pfn_remapped(struct vm_area_struct *vma, * Whoever called remap_pfn_range is also going to call e.g. * unmap_mapping_range before the underlying pages are freed, * causing a call to our MMU notifier. + * + * Certain IO or PFNMAP mappings can be backed with valid + * struct pages, but be allocated without refcounting e.g., + * tail pages of non-compound higher order allocations, which + * would then underflow the refcount when the caller does the + * required put_page. Don't allow those pages here. */ - kvm_get_pfn(pfn); + if (!kvm_try_get_pfn(pfn)) + r = -EFAULT; out: pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); *p_pfn = pfn; - return 0; + + return r; } /*