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File 5df0f53c-x86-mm-grab-extra-typeref-when-setting-PGT_partial-in-relinq.patch of Package xen.14766

# Commit 66bdc16aeed8ddb2ae724adc5ea6bde0dea78c3d
# Date 2019-12-11 14:55:08 +0100
# Author George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
# Committer Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
x86/mm: relinquish_memory: Grab an extra type ref when setting PGT_partial

The PGT_partial bit in page->type_info holds both a type count and a
general ref count.  During domain tear-down, when free_page_type()
returns -ERESTART, relinquish_memory() correctly handles the general
ref count, but fails to grab an extra type count when setting
PGT_partial.  When this bit is eventually cleared, type_count underflows
and triggers the following BUG in page_alloc.c:free_domheap_pages():

BUG_ON((pg[i].u.inuse.type_info & PGT_count_mask) != 0);

As far as we can tell, this page underflow cannot be exploited any any
other way: The page can't be used as a pagetable by the dying domain
because it's dying; it can't be used as a pagetable by any other
domain since it belongs to the dying domain; and ownership can't
transfer to any other domain without hitting the BUG_ON() in
free_domheap_pages().

(steal_page() won't work on a page in this state, since it requires
PGC_allocated to be set, and PGC_allocated will already have been
cleared.)

Fix this by grabbing an extra type ref if setting PGT_partial in
relinquish_memory.

This is part of XSA-310.

Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
@@ -1919,6 +1919,25 @@ static int relinquish_memory(
                     goto out;
                 case -ERESTART:
                     page_list_add(page, list);
+                    /*
+                     * PGT_partial holds a type ref and a general ref.
+                     * If we came in with PGT_partial set, then we 1)
+                     * don't need to grab an extra type count, and 2)
+                     * do need to drop the extra page ref we grabbed
+                     * at the top of the loop.  If we didn't come in
+                     * with PGT_partial set, we 1) do need to drab an
+                     * extra type count, but 2) can transfer the page
+                     * ref we grabbed above to it.
+                     *
+                     * Note that we must increment type_info before
+                     * setting PGT_partial.  Theoretically it should
+                     * be safe to drop the page ref before setting
+                     * PGT_partial, but do it afterwards just to be
+                     * extra safe.
+                     */
+                    if ( !(x & PGT_partial) )
+                        page->u.inuse.type_info++;
+                    smp_wmb();
                     page->u.inuse.type_info |= PGT_partial;
                     if ( x & PGT_partial )
                         put_page(page);

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