[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "KVM: s390/mm: try a cow on read only pages for key ops" has been added to staging queue
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Tue Sep 30 21:29:42 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
KVM: s390/mm: try a cow on read only pages for key ops
to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.8.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From afc3eae1dbdfe880492d496b76aa0078dacc24d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:19:35 +0200
Subject: KVM: s390/mm: try a cow on read only pages for key ops
commit ab3f285f227fec62868037e9b1b1fd18294a83b8 upstream.
The PFMF instruction handler blindly wrote the storage key even if
the page was mapped R/O in the host. Lets try a COW before continuing
and bail out in case of errors.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
index e794c88..9cffb96 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -810,11 +810,21 @@ int set_guest_storage_key(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pte_t *ptep;
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+retry:
ptep = get_locked_pte(current->mm, addr, &ptl);
if (unlikely(!ptep)) {
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
return -EFAULT;
}
+ if (!(pte_val(*ptep) & _PAGE_INVALID) &&
+ (pte_val(*ptep) & _PAGE_PROTECT)) {
+ pte_unmap_unlock(*ptep, ptl);
+ if (fixup_user_fault(current, mm, addr, FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) {
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
+ goto retry;
+ }
new = old = pgste_get_lock(ptep);
pgste_val(new) &= ~(PGSTE_GR_BIT | PGSTE_GC_BIT |
--
1.9.1
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