From: Matt Wilson Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:21:27 +0000 (+0000) Subject: xen/grant-table: correctly initialize grant table version 1 X-Git-Tag: v3.8-rc5~41^2~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0b4d64aadb9f4a90669848de9ef3819050a98cd;p=pandora-kernel.git xen/grant-table: correctly initialize grant table version 1 Commit 85ff6acb075a484780b3d763fdf41596d8fc0970 (xen/granttable: Grant tables V2 implementation) changed the GREFS_PER_GRANT_FRAME macro from a constant to a conditional expression. The expression depends on grant_table_version being appropriately set. Unfortunately, at init time grant_table_version will be 0. The GREFS_PER_GRANT_FRAME conditional expression checks for "grant_table_version == 1", and therefore returns the number of grant references per frame for v2. This causes gnttab_init() to allocate fewer pages for gnttab_list, as a frame can old half the number of v2 entries than v1 entries. After gnttab_resume() is called, grant_table_version is appropriately set. nr_init_grefs will then be miscalculated and gnttab_free_count will hold a value larger than the actual number of free gref entries. If a guest is heavily utilizing improperly initialized v1 grant tables, memory corruption can occur. One common manifestation is corruption of the vmalloc list, resulting in a poisoned pointer derefrence when accessing /proc/meminfo or /proc/vmallocinfo: [ 40.770064] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000200200001407 [ 40.770083] IP: [] get_vmalloc_info+0x70/0x110 [ 40.770102] PGD 0 [ 40.770107] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 40.770114] CPU 10 This patch introduces a static variable, grefs_per_grant_frame, to cache the calculated value. gnttab_init() now calls gnttab_request_version() early so that grant_table_version and grefs_per_grant_frame can be appropriately set. A few BUG_ON()s have been added to prevent this type of bug from reoccurring in the future. Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Steven Noonan Acked-by: Ian Campbell Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Annie Li Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.3 and newer Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk --- Reading git-diff-tree failed