Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH-for-4.1] virtio-balloon: fix QEMU crashes on pagesize > BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE

[David Hildenbrand]

On 17.07.19 11:57, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:42:55AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> We are using the wrong functions to set/clear bits, effectively touching
>> multiple bits, writing out of range of the bitmap, resulting in memory
>> corruptions. We have to use set_bit()/clear_bit() instead.
>>
>> Can easily be reproduced by starting a qemu guest on hugetlbfs memory,
>> inflating the balloon. QEMU crashes. This never could have worked
>> properly - especially, also pages would have been discarded when the
>> first sub-page would be inflated (the whole bitmap would be set).
>>
>> While testing I realized, that on hugetlbfs it is pretty much impossible
>> to discard a page - the guest just frees the 4k sub-pages in random order
>> most of the time. I was only able to discard a hugepage a handful of
>> times - so I hope that now works correctly.
>>
>> Fixes: ed48c59875b6 ("virtio-balloon: Safely handle BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE <
>>                      host page size")
>> Fixes: b27b32391404 ("virtio-balloon: Fix possible guest memory corruption
>>                      with inflates & deflates")
>> Cc: address@hidden #v4.0.0
>> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
>> Cc: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c | 10 ++++------
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
>> index e85d1c0d5c..669067d661 100644
>> --- a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
>> +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
>> @@ -94,9 +94,8 @@ static void balloon_inflate_page(VirtIOBalloon *balloon,
>>          balloon->pbp->base = host_page_base;
>>      }
>>  
>> -    bitmap_set(balloon->pbp->bitmap,
>> -               (ram_offset - balloon->pbp->base) / BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE,
>> -               subpages);
>> +    set_bit((ram_offset - balloon->pbp->base) / BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE,
>> +            balloon->pbp->bitmap);
>>  
>>      if (bitmap_full(balloon->pbp->bitmap, subpages)) {
>>          /* We've accumulated a full host page, we can actually discard
>> @@ -140,9 +139,8 @@ static void balloon_deflate_page(VirtIOBalloon *balloon,
>>           * for a guest to do this in practice, but handle it anyway,
>>           * since getting it wrong could mean discarding memory the
>>           * guest is still using. */
>> -        bitmap_clear(balloon->pbp->bitmap,
>> -                     (ram_offset - balloon->pbp->base) / BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE,
>> -                     subpages);
>> +        clear_bit((ram_offset - balloon->pbp->base) / BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE,
>> +                  balloon->pbp->bitmap);
>>  
>>          if (bitmap_empty(balloon->pbp->bitmap, subpages)) {
>>              g_free(balloon->pbp);
> 
> I also started to wonder about this:
> 
>     if (!balloon->pbp) {
>         /* Starting on a new host page */
>         size_t bitlen = BITS_TO_LONGS(subpages) * sizeof(unsigned long);
>         balloon->pbp = g_malloc0(sizeof(PartiallyBalloonedPage) + bitlen);
>         balloon->pbp->rb = rb;
>         balloon->pbp->base = host_page_base;
>     }
> 
> Is keeping a pointer to a ram block like this safe? what if the ramblock
> gets removed?
> 

David added

if (balloon->pbp
    && (rb != balloon->pbp->rb ) ...

So in case the rb changes (IOW replaced - delete old one, new one
added), we reset the data.

After a ram block was deleted, there will be no more deflation requests
coming in for it. This should be fine I guess.


However, there is another possible issue: Resets.

If the balloon was inflated and we reboot, the old balloon->pbp will
remain intact. The guest will continue using all memory until
virtio-balloon guest driver comes up. If the stars align, it could
happen that new inflation requests by the guests will result in a
discard of a big chunk, although the guest is re-using some parts
already again.

We would have to reset balloon->pbp during virtio_balloon_device_reset().

-- 

Thanks,

David / dhildenb