From: Radim Krčmář <rkrc...@redhat.com>
As noted by Andy Lutomirski, kvm does not follow the documented version
protocol. Fix it.
Note: this bug results in a race which can occur if the following three
conditions are met:
1) There is KVM guest time update (there is one every 5 minutes).
2) Which races with a thread in the guest in the following way:
The execution of these 29 instructions has to take at _least_
2 seconds (rebalance interval is 1 second).
lsl %r9w,%esi
mov %esi,%r8d
and $0x3f,%esi
and $0xfff,%r8d
test $0xfc0,%r8d
jne 0xa12 <vread_pvclock+210>
shl $0x6,%rsi
mov -0xa01000(%rsi),%r10d
data32 xchg %ax,%ax
data32 xchg %ax,%ax
rdtsc
shl $0x20,%rdx
mov %eax,%eax
movsbl -0xa00fe4(%rsi),%ecx
or %rax,%rdx
sub -0xa00ff8(%rsi),%rdx
mov -0xa00fe8(%rsi),%r11d
mov %rdx,%rax
shl %cl,%rax
test %ecx,%ecx
js 0xa08 <vread_pvclock+200>
mov %r11d,%edx
movzbl -0xa00fe3(%rsi),%ecx
mov -0xa00ff0(%rsi),%r11
mul %rdx
shrd $0x20,%rdx,%rax
data32 xchg %ax,%ax
data32 xchg %ax,%ax
lsl %r9w,%edx
3) Scheduler moves the task, while executing these 29 instructions, to a
destination processor, then back to the source processor.
4) Source processor, after has been moved back from destination,
perceives data out of order as written by processor performing guest
time update (item 1), with string mov.
Given the rarity of this condition, and the fact it was never observed
or reported, reverting pvclock vsyscall on systems whose host is
susceptible to the race, seems an excessive measure.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com>
Cc: sta...@kernel.org
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index cc2c759..e75fafd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1658,12 +1658,20 @@ static int kvm_guest_time_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
&guest_hv_clock, sizeof(guest_hv_clock))))
return 0;
- /*
- * The interface expects us to write an even number signaling that the
- * update is finished. Since the guest won't see the intermediate
- * state, we just increase by 2 at the end.
+ /* A guest can read other VCPU's kvmclock; specification says that
+ * version is odd if data is being modified and even after it is
+ * consistent.
+ * We write three times to be sure.
+ * 1) update version to odd number
+ * 2) write modified data (version is still odd)
+ * 3) update version to even number
*/
- vcpu->hv_clock.version = guest_hv_clock.version + 2;
+ guest_hv_clock.version += 1;
+ kvm_write_guest_cached(v->kvm, &vcpu->pv_time,
+ &guest_hv_clock,
+ sizeof(guest_hv_clock));
+
+ vcpu->hv_clock.version = guest_hv_clock.version;
/* retain PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED if set in guest copy */
pvclock_flags = (guest_hv_clock.flags & PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED);
@@ -1684,6 +1692,11 @@ static int kvm_guest_time_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
kvm_write_guest_cached(v->kvm, &vcpu->pv_time,
&vcpu->hv_clock,
sizeof(vcpu->hv_clock));
+
+ vcpu->hv_clock.version += 1;
+ kvm_write_guest_cached(v->kvm, &vcpu->pv_time,
+ &vcpu->hv_clock,
+ sizeof(vcpu->hv_clock));
return 0;
}
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