Re: [PATCH v5 06/13] KVM: Use kvm_userspace_memory_region_ext

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Mon Mar 28 2022 - 18:27:06 EST


On Thu, Mar 10, 2022, Chao Peng wrote:
> @@ -4476,14 +4477,23 @@ static long kvm_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
> break;
> }
> case KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION: {
> - struct kvm_userspace_memory_region kvm_userspace_mem;
> + struct kvm_userspace_memory_region_ext region_ext;

It's probably a good idea to zero initialize the full region to avoid consuming
garbage stack data if there's a bug and an _ext field is accessed without first
checking KVM_MEM_PRIVATE. I'm usually opposed to unnecessary initialization, but
this seems like something we could screw up quite easily.

> r = -EFAULT;
> - if (copy_from_user(&kvm_userspace_mem, argp,
> - sizeof(kvm_userspace_mem)))
> + if (copy_from_user(&region_ext, argp,
> + sizeof(struct kvm_userspace_memory_region)))
> goto out;
> + if (region_ext.region.flags & KVM_MEM_PRIVATE) {
> + int offset = offsetof(
> + struct kvm_userspace_memory_region_ext,
> + private_offset);
> + if (copy_from_user(&region_ext.private_offset,
> + argp + offset,
> + sizeof(region_ext) - offset))

In this patch, KVM_MEM_PRIVATE should result in an -EINVAL as it's not yet
supported. Copying the _ext on KVM_MEM_PRIVATE belongs in the "Expose KVM_MEM_PRIVATE"
patch.

Mechnically, what about first reading flags via get_user(), and then doing a single
copy_from_user()? It's technically more work in the common case, and requires an
extra check to guard against TOCTOU attacks, but this isn't a fast path by any means
and IMO the end result makes it easier to understand the relationship between
KVM_MEM_PRIVATE and the two different structs.

E.g.

case KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION: {
struct kvm_user_mem_region region;
unsigned long size;
u32 flags;

memset(&region, 0, sizeof(region));

r = -EFAULT;
if (get_user(flags, (u32 __user *)(argp + offsetof(typeof(region), flags))))
goto out;

if (flags & KVM_MEM_PRIVATE)
size = sizeof(struct kvm_userspace_memory_region_ext);
else
size = sizeof(struct kvm_userspace_memory_region);
if (copy_from_user(&region, argp, size))
goto out;

r = -EINVAL;
if ((flags ^ region.flags) & KVM_MEM_PRIVATE)
goto out;

r = kvm_vm_ioctl_set_memory_region(kvm, &region);
break;
}

> + goto out;
> + }
>
> - r = kvm_vm_ioctl_set_memory_region(kvm, &kvm_userspace_mem);
> + r = kvm_vm_ioctl_set_memory_region(kvm, &region_ext);
> break;
> }
> case KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG: {
> --
> 2.17.1
>