From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de
Cc: decui@microsoft.com, rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com,
sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com, seanjc@google.com,
thomas.lendacky@amd.com, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] x86/tdx: Fix race between set_memory_encrypted() and load_unaligned_zeropad()
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 16:13:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e0e7074-4bc7-3f39-27df-623448044c72@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230526120225.31936-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
On 5/26/23 05:02, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Touching privately mapped GPA that is not properly converted to private
> with MapGPA and accepted leads to unrecoverable exit to VMM.
>
> load_unaligned_zeropad() can touch memory that is not owned by the
> caller, but just happened to next after the owned memory.
> This load_unaligned_zeropad() behaviour makes it important when kernel
> asks VMM to convert a GPA from shared to private or back. Kernel must
> never have a page mapped into direct mapping (and aliases) as private
> when the GPA is already converted to shared or when GPA is not yet
> converted to private.
>
> guest.enc_status_change_prepare() called before adjusting direct mapping
> and therefore it is responsible for converting the memory to private.
>
> guest.enc_status_change_finish() called after adjusting direct mapping
> and it converts the memory to shared.
>
> It is okay to have a shared mapping of memory that is not converted
> properly. handle_mmio() knows how to deal with load_unaligned_zeropad()
> stepping on it.
Yeah, as other said, the changelog grammar here is a bit funky. Can you
fix it up and resend, please?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-05 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-26 12:02 [PATCHv2 0/3] x86/tdx: Fix one more load_unaligned_zeropad() issue Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-26 12:02 ` [PATCHv2 1/3] x86/mm: Allow guest.enc_status_change_prepare() to fail Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-26 21:50 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-05-26 12:02 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] x86/tdx: Fix race between set_memory_encrypted() and load_unaligned_zeropad() Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-26 22:10 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-05-30 0:57 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-30 12:57 ` Tom Lendacky
2023-05-30 13:22 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
[not found] ` <BYAPR21MB1688EF2A57E90FCE02B82F84D748A@BYAPR21MB1688.namprd21.prod.outlook.com>
2023-06-01 18:19 ` Tom Lendacky
2023-06-02 16:11 ` Michael Kelley (LINUX)
2023-06-02 17:05 ` Tom Lendacky
2023-06-02 17:42 ` Dave Hansen
2023-06-05 12:12 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-06-05 23:13 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2023-05-26 12:02 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] x86/mm: Fix enc_status_change_finish_noop() Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-30 13:20 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
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