Ahmed managed to crash the Host in release_pgd(), which cannot be a Guest
bug, and indeed it wasn't.
The bug was that handing a 0 as the address of the toplevel page table
being manipulated can cause the lookup code in find_pgdir() to return
an uninitialized cache entry (we shadow up to 4 top level page tables
for each Guest).
Commit
37cc8d7f963ba2deec29c9b68716944516a3244f introduced this
behaviour in the Guest, uncovering the bug.
The patch which he submitted (which removed the /4 from the index
calculation) simply ensured that these high-indexed entries hit the
early exit path of guest_set_pmd(). But you get lots of segfaults in
guest userspace as the PMDs aren't being updated.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
{
*pmdp = pmdval;
lazy_hcall(LHCALL_SET_PMD, __pa(pmdp)&PAGE_MASK,
- (__pa(pmdp)&(PAGE_SIZE-1)), 0);
+ (__pa(pmdp)&(PAGE_SIZE-1))/4, 0);
}
/* There are a couple of legacy places where the kernel sets a PTE, but we
{
unsigned int i;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(lg->pgdirs); i++)
- if (lg->pgdirs[i].gpgdir == pgtable)
+ if (lg->pgdirs[i].pgdir && lg->pgdirs[i].gpgdir == pgtable)
break;
return i;
}