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[v3,1/2] target/i386: fix hang when using slow path for ptw_setl

Message ID 20241025175857.2554252-2-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org
State New
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Series target/i386: fix hang when using slow path for ptw_setl | expand

Commit Message

Pierrick Bouvier Oct. 25, 2024, 5:58 p.m. UTC
When instrumenting memory accesses for plugin, we force memory accesses
to use the slow path for mmu [1]. This create a situation where we end
up calling ptw_setl_slow. This was fixed recently in [2] but the issue
still could appear out of plugins use case.

Since this function gets called during a cpu_exec, start_exclusive then
hangs. This exclusive section was introduced initially for security
reasons [3].

I suspect this code path was never triggered, because ptw_setl_slow
would always be called transitively from cpu_exec, resulting in a hang.

[1] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/6d03226b42247b68ab2f0b3663e0f624335a4055
[2] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/115ade42d50144c15b74368d32dc734ea277d853
[3] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/279

Fixes: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2566
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
---
 target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Comments

Richard Henderson Oct. 29, 2024, 3:47 p.m. UTC | #1
On 10/25/24 18:58, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
> When instrumenting memory accesses for plugin, we force memory accesses
> to use the slow path for mmu [1]. This create a situation where we end
> up calling ptw_setl_slow. This was fixed recently in [2] but the issue
> still could appear out of plugins use case.
> 
> Since this function gets called during a cpu_exec, start_exclusive then
> hangs. This exclusive section was introduced initially for security
> reasons [3].
> 
> I suspect this code path was never triggered, because ptw_setl_slow
> would always be called transitively from cpu_exec, resulting in a hang.
> 
> [1]https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/6d03226b42247b68ab2f0b3663e0f624335a4055
> [2]https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/115ade42d50144c15b74368d32dc734ea277d853
> [3]https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/279
> 
> Fixes:https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2566
> Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier<pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
> ---
>   target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c | 5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

r~
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diff --git a/target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c b/target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c
index da187c8792a..ddc51e3e0b8 100644
--- a/target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c
+++ b/target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@  static bool ptw_setl_slow(const PTETranslate *in, uint32_t old, uint32_t new)
 {
     uint32_t cmp;
 
+    CPUState *cpu = env_cpu(in->env);
+    /* We are in cpu_exec, and start_exclusive can't be called directly.*/
+    g_assert(cpu->running);
+    cpu_exec_end(cpu);
     /* Does x86 really perform a rmw cycle on mmio for ptw? */
     start_exclusive();
     cmp = cpu_ldl_mmuidx_ra(in->env, in->gaddr, in->ptw_idx, 0);
@@ -114,6 +118,7 @@  static bool ptw_setl_slow(const PTETranslate *in, uint32_t old, uint32_t new)
         cpu_stl_mmuidx_ra(in->env, in->gaddr, new, in->ptw_idx, 0);
     }
     end_exclusive();
+    cpu_exec_start(cpu);
     return cmp == old;
 }