x86/pod: prevent infinite loop when shattering large pages

When populating pages, the PoD may need to split large ones using
p2m_set_entry and request the caller to retry (see ept_get_entry for
instance).

p2m_set_entry may fail to shatter if it is not possible to allocate
memory for the new page table. However, the error is not propagated
resulting to the callers to retry infinitely the PoD.

Prevent the infinite loop by return false when it is not possible to
shatter the large mapping.

This is XSA-246.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Gbp-Pq: Name x86pod-prevent-infinite-loop-when-shatte.patch

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m-pod.c b/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m-pod.c
index 149f529625054dd49cb5f58884eaec228c8805c5..0e15290390e0b1a4d97001a91b2c248fb660e265 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m-pod.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m-pod.c
@@ -1073,9 +1073,8 @@ p2m_pod_demand_populate(struct p2m_domain *p2m, unsigned long gfn,
          * NOTE: In a fine-grained p2m locking scenario this operation
          * may need to promote its locking from gfn->1g superpage
          */
-        p2m_set_entry(p2m, gfn_aligned, INVALID_MFN, PAGE_ORDER_2M,
-                      p2m_populate_on_demand, p2m->default_access);
-        return 0;
+        return p2m_set_entry(p2m, gfn_aligned, INVALID_MFN, PAGE_ORDER_2M,
+                             p2m_populate_on_demand, p2m->default_access);
     }
 
     /* Only reclaim if we're in actual need of more cache. */
@@ -1106,8 +1105,12 @@ p2m_pod_demand_populate(struct p2m_domain *p2m, unsigned long gfn,
 
     gfn_aligned = (gfn >> order) << order;
 
-    p2m_set_entry(p2m, gfn_aligned, mfn, order, p2m_ram_rw,
-                  p2m->default_access);
+    if ( p2m_set_entry(p2m, gfn_aligned, mfn, order, p2m_ram_rw,
+                       p2m->default_access) )
+    {
+        p2m_pod_cache_add(p2m, p, order);
+        goto out_fail;
+    }
 
     for( i = 0; i < (1UL << order); i++ )
     {
@@ -1152,13 +1155,18 @@ remap_and_retry:
     BUG_ON(order != PAGE_ORDER_2M);
     pod_unlock(p2m);
 
-    /* Remap this 2-meg region in singleton chunks */
-    /* NOTE: In a p2m fine-grained lock scenario this might
-     * need promoting the gfn lock from gfn->2M superpage */
+    /*
+     * Remap this 2-meg region in singleton chunks. See the comment on the
+     * 1G page splitting path above for why a single call suffices.
+     *
+     * NOTE: In a p2m fine-grained lock scenario this might
+     * need promoting the gfn lock from gfn->2M superpage.
+     */
     gfn_aligned = (gfn>>order)<<order;
-    for(i=0; i<(1<<order); i++)
-        p2m_set_entry(p2m, gfn_aligned + i, INVALID_MFN, PAGE_ORDER_4K,
-                      p2m_populate_on_demand, p2m->default_access);
+    if ( p2m_set_entry(p2m, gfn_aligned, INVALID_MFN, PAGE_ORDER_4K,
+                       p2m_populate_on_demand, p2m->default_access) )
+        return -1;
+
     if ( tb_init_done )
     {
         struct {