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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2013-03-05 12:14:40 (GMT)
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2013-03-07 19:21:19 (GMT)
commit744b37fb5a63d45e92e590967bae82d8ac62e950 (patch)
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s390/kvm,gaccess: fix guest access return code handling
Guest access functions like copy_to/from_guest() call __guestaddr_to_user() which in turn call gmap_fault() in order to translate a guest address to a user space address. In error case __guest_addr_to_user() returns either -EFAULT or -ENOMEM. The copy_to/from_guest functions just pass these return values down to the callers. The -ENOMEM case however is problematic since there are several places which access guest memory like: rc = copy_to_guest(...); if (rc == -EFAULT) error_handling(); So in case of -ENOMEM the code assumes that the guest memory access succeeded even though it failed. This can cause guest data or state corruption. If __guestaddr_to_user() returns -ENOMEM the meaning is that a valid user space mapping exists, but there was not enough memory available when trying to build the guest mapping. In other words an out-of-memory situation occured. For normal user space accesses an out-of-memory situation causes the page fault handler to map -ENOMEM to -EFAULT (see fixup code in do_no_context()). We need to do exactly the same for the kvm gaccess functions. So __guestaddr_to_user() should just map all error codes to -EFAULT. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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