Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: arm64: Add memory length checks and remove inline in do_ffa_mem_xfer

From: Oliver Upton
Date: Tue Sep 10 2024 - 15:53:41 EST


On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 08:49:28PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:18:41 +0100,
> Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 12:32:29AM +0800, Wei-Lin Chang wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 06:01:54PM GMT, Snehal Koukuntla wrote:
> > > > When we share memory through FF-A and the description of the buffers
> > > > exceeds the size of the mapped buffer, the fragmentation API is used.
> > > > The fragmentation API allows specifying chunks of descriptors in subsequent
> > > > FF-A fragment calls and no upper limit has been established for this.
> > > > The entire memory region transferred is identified by a handle which can be
> > > > used to reclaim the transferred memory.
> > > > To be able to reclaim the memory, the description of the buffers has to fit
> > > > in the ffa_desc_buf.
> > > > Add a bounds check on the FF-A sharing path to prevent the memory reclaim
> > > > from failing.
> > > >
> > > > Also do_ffa_mem_xfer() does not need __always_inline
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 634d90cf0ac65 ("KVM: arm64: Handle FFA_MEM_LEND calls from the host")
> > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Reviewed-by: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Snehal Koukuntla <snehalreddy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 7 ++++++-
> > > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
> > > > index e715c157c2c4..637425f63fd1 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
> > > > @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ static void do_ffa_mem_frag_tx(struct arm_smccc_res *res,
> > > > return;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > -static __always_inline void do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
> > > > +static void do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
> > >
> > > I am seeing a compilation error because of this.
> >
> > Thanks for reporting this. Looks like the __always_inline was slightly
> > more load bearing...
> >
> > Marc, can you put something like this on top?
> >
> >
> > From c2712eaa94989ae6457baad3ec459cf363ec5119 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:45:30 +0000
> > Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Drop BUILD_BUG_ON() from do_ffa_mem_xfer()
> >
> > __always_inline was recently discarded from do_ffa_mem_xfer() since it
> > appeared to be unnecessary. Of course, this was ~immediately proven
> > wrong, as the compile-time check against @func_id depends on inlining
> > for the value to be known.
> >
> > Just downgrade to a WARN_ON() instead of putting the old mess back in
> > place. Fix the wrapping/indentation of the function parameters while at
> > it.
> >
> > Fixes: 39dacbeeee70 ("KVM: arm64: Add memory length checks and remove inline in do_ffa_mem_xfer")
> > Reported-by: Wei-Lin Chang <r09922117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 11 ++++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
> > index 637425f63fd1..316d269341f3 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
> > @@ -426,9 +426,8 @@ static void do_ffa_mem_frag_tx(struct arm_smccc_res *res,
> > return;
> > }
> >
> > -static void do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
> > - struct arm_smccc_res *res,
> > - struct kvm_cpu_context *ctxt)
> > +static void do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id, struct arm_smccc_res *res,
> > + struct kvm_cpu_context *ctxt)
> > {
> > DECLARE_REG(u32, len, ctxt, 1);
> > DECLARE_REG(u32, fraglen, ctxt, 2);
> > @@ -440,8 +439,10 @@ static void do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
> > u32 offset, nr_ranges;
> > int ret = 0;
> >
> > - BUILD_BUG_ON(func_id != FFA_FN64_MEM_SHARE &&
> > - func_id != FFA_FN64_MEM_LEND);
> > + if (WARN_ON(func_id != FFA_FN64_MEM_SHARE && func_id != FFA_FN64_MEM_LEND)) {
> > + ret = SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED;
> > + goto out;
> > + }
>
>
> I'm not overly on the WARN_ON(), as it has pretty fatal effects on
> pKVM (it simply panics).

It's unexpected, what else are you wanting? :P

> What do you think of this instead, which
> compiles with my prehistoric version of clang (14.0.6):

LGTM, macro expansion makes the relation a bit more obvious. Feel free
to add:

Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx>

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Thanks,
Oliver