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VMCI: Fix two UVA mapping bugs
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(this is a resend of this patch. Originally sent last year, but post
 appears to have been lost)

This change fixes two bugs in the VMCI host driver related to mapping
the notify boolean from user space into kernel space:
- the actual UVA was rounded up to the next page boundary - resulting
  in memory corruption in the calling process whenever notifications
  would be signalled. This has been fixed by just removing the
  PAGE_ALIGN part, since get_user_pages_fast can figure this out on
  its own
- the mapped page wasn't stored anywhere, so it wasn't unmapped and
  put back when a VMCI context was destroyed. Fixed this by
  remembering the page.

Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Darius Davis <darius@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Jorgen Hansen authored and gregkh committed Jan 25, 2015
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_driver.c
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Expand Up @@ -113,5 +113,5 @@ module_exit(vmci_drv_exit);

MODULE_AUTHOR("VMware, Inc.");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface.");
MODULE_VERSION("1.1.0.0-k");
MODULE_VERSION("1.1.1.0-k");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
13 changes: 7 additions & 6 deletions drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
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Expand Up @@ -218,13 +218,12 @@ static int drv_cp_harray_to_user(void __user *user_buf_uva,
}

/*
* Sets up a given context for notify to work. Calls drv_map_bool_ptr()
* which maps the notify boolean in user VA in kernel space.
* Sets up a given context for notify to work. Maps the notify
* boolean in user VA into kernel space.
*/
static int vmci_host_setup_notify(struct vmci_ctx *context,
unsigned long uva)
{
struct page *page;
int retval;

if (context->notify_page) {
Expand All @@ -243,14 +242,16 @@ static int vmci_host_setup_notify(struct vmci_ctx *context,
/*
* Lock physical page backing a given user VA.
*/
retval = get_user_pages_fast(PAGE_ALIGN(uva), 1, 1, &page);
if (retval != 1)
retval = get_user_pages_fast(uva, 1, 1, &context->notify_page);
if (retval != 1) {
context->notify_page = NULL;
return VMCI_ERROR_GENERIC;
}

/*
* Map the locked page and set up notify pointer.
*/
context->notify = kmap(page) + (uva & (PAGE_SIZE - 1));
context->notify = kmap(context->notify_page) + (uva & (PAGE_SIZE - 1));
vmci_ctx_check_signal_notify(context);

return VMCI_SUCCESS;
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