Re: KVM: Warn if mark_page_dirty() is called without an active vCPU

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 13:14 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 1/13/22 13:06, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > From: Christian Borntraeger<
> > borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > 
> > Quick heads-up.
> > The new warnon triggers on s390. Here we write to the guest from an
> > irqfd worker. Since we do not use dirty_ring yet this might be an
> > over-indication.
> > Still have to look into that.
> 
> Yes, it's okay to add an #ifdef around the warning.

That would be #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING, yes? 

I already found it hard to write down the rules around how
kvm_vcpu_write_guest() doesn't use the vCPU it's passed, and how both
it and kvm_write_guest() need to be invoked on a pCPU which currently
owns *a* vCPU belonging to the same KVM... if we add "unless you're on
an architecture that doesn't support dirty ring logging", you may have
to pass me a bucket.

Are you proposing that as an officially documented part of the already
horrid API, or a temporary measure :)

Btw, that get_map_page() in arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c looks like it has
the same use-after-free problem that kvm_map_gfn() used to have. It
probably wants converting to the new gfn_to_pfn_cache. 

Take a look at how I resolve the same issue for delivering Xen event
channel interrupts.

Although I gave myself a free pass on the dirty marking in that case,
by declaring that the shinfo page doesn't get marked dirty; it should
be considered *always* dirty. You might have less fun declaring that
retrospectively in your case.

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