Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: uaccess CMPXCHG + KVM bug fixes

[Tadeusz Struk]

On 1/31/22 17:08, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Add uaccess macros for doing CMPXCHG on userspace addresses and use the
> macros to fix KVM bugs by replacing flawed code that maps memory into the
> kernel address space without proper mmu_notifier protection (or with
> broken pfn calculations in one case).
>
> Add yet another Kconfig for guarding asm_volatile_goto() to workaround a
> clang-13 bug.  I've verified the test passes on gcc versions of arm64,
> PPC, RISC-V, and s390x that also pass the CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT test.
>
> Patches 1-4 are tagged for stable@ as patches 3 and 4 (mostly 3) need a
> backportable fix, and doing CMPXCHG on the userspace address is the
> simplest fix from a KVM perspective.
>
> Peter Zijlstra (1):
>    x86/uaccess: Implement macros for CMPXCHG on user addresses
>
> Sean Christopherson (4):
>    Kconfig: Add option for asm goto w/ tied outputs to workaround
>      clang-13 bug
>    KVM: x86: Use __try_cmpxchg_user() to update guest PTE A/D bits
>    KVM: x86: Use __try_cmpxchg_user() to emulate atomic accesses
>    KVM: x86: Bail to userspace if emulation of atomic user access faults
>
>   arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 131 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h |  45 +----------
>   arch/x86/kvm/x86.c             |  35 ++++-----
>   init/Kconfig                   |   4 +
>   4 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)

This also fixes the following syzbot issue:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=6cb6102a0a7b0c52060753dd62d070a1d1e71347

Tested-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Thanks,
Tadeusz