KVM: x86/mmu: Fix a largely theoretical race in kvm_mmu_track_write()
Add full memory barriers in kvm_mmu_track_write() and account_shadowed() to plug a (very, very theoretical) race where kvm_mmu_track_write() could miss a 0->1 transition of indirect_shadow_pages and fail to zap relevant, *stale* SPTEs. Without the barriers, because modern x86 CPUs allow (per the SDM): Reads may be reordered with older writes to different locations but not with older writes to the same location. it's possible that the following could happen (terms of values being visible/resolved): CPU0 CPU1 read memory[gfn] (=Y) memory[gfn] Y=>X read indirect_shadow_pages (=0) indirect_shadow_pages 0=>1 or conversely: CPU0 CPU1 indirect_shadow_pages 0=>1 read indirect_shadow_pages (=0) read memory[gfn] (=Y) memory[gfn] Y=>X E.g. in the below scenario, CPU0 could fail to zap SPTEs, and CPU1 could fail to retry the faulting instruction, resulting in a KVM entering the guest with a stale SPTE (map PTE=X instead of PTE=Y). PTE = X; CPU0: emulator_write_phys() PTE = Y kvm_page_track_write() kvm_mmu_track_write() // memory barrier missing here if (indirect_shadow_pages) zap(); CPU1: FNAME(page_fault) FNAME(walk_addr) FNAME(walk_addr_generic) gw->pte = PTE; // X FNAME(fetch) kvm_mmu_get_child_sp kvm_mmu_get_shadow_page __kvm_mmu_get_shadow_page kvm_mmu_alloc_shadow_page account_shadowed indirect_shadow_pages++ // memory barrier missing here if (FNAME(gpte_changed)) // if (PTE == X) return RET_PF_RETRY; In practice, this bug likely cannot be observed as both the 0=>1 transition and reordering of this scope are extremely rare occurrences. Note, if the cost of the barrier (which is simply a locked ADD, see commit 450cbdd0 ("locking/x86: Use LOCK ADD for smp_mb() instead of MFENCE")), is problematic, KVM could avoid the barrier by bailing earlier if checking kvm_memslots_have_rmaps() is false. But the odds of the barrier being problematic is extremely low, *and* the odds of the extra checks being meaningfully faster overall is also low. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423193114.2887673-1-seanjc@google.comSigned-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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