Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix region 1 ASCE sanity shadow address checks

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Mon Apr 06 2020 - 04:33:10 EST




On 03.04.20 21:55, David Hildenbrand wrote:
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>> Am 03.04.2020 um 19:56 schrieb Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>:
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>> ï
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>>> On 03.04.20 17:30, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> In case we have a region 1 ASCE, our shadow/g3 address can have any value.
>>> Unfortunately, (-1UL << 64) is undefined and triggers sometimes,
>>> rejecting valid shadow addresses when trying to walk our shadow table
>>> hierarchy.
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>> I thin the range of the addresses do not matter.
>> Took me a while to understand maybe rephrase that:
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>> In case we have a region 1 the following calculation
>> (31 + ((gmap->asce & _ASCE_TYPE_MASK) >> 2)*11)
>> results in 64. As shifts beyond the size are undefined the compiler is free to use
>> instructions like sllg. sllg will only use 6 bits of the shift value (here 64)
>> resulting in no shift at all. That means that ALL addresses will be rejected.
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> Interestingly, it would not fail when shadowing the r2t, but only when trying to shadow the r3t.
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>> With that this makes sense.
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>> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> In case there are no other comments, can you fixup when applying, or do you want me to resend?

I can fixup.