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KVM: arm/arm64: Remove excessive permission check in kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region
In kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region, arm kvm regards the memory region as
writable if the flag has no KVM_MEM_READONLY, and the vm is readonly if
!VM_WRITE.
But there is common usage for setting kvm memory region as follows:
e.g. qemu side (see the PROT_NONE flag)
1. mmap(NULL, size, PROT_NONE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
memory_region_init_ram_ptr()
2. re mmap the above area with read/write authority.
Such example is used in virtio-fs qemu codes which hasn't been upstreamed
[1]. But seems we can't forbid this example.
Without this patch, it will cause an EPERM during kvm_set_memory_region()
and cause qemu boot crash.
As told by Ard, "the underlying assumption is incorrect, i.e., that the
value of vm_flags at this point in time defines how the VMA is used
during its lifetime. There may be other cases where a VMA is created
with VM_READ vm_flags that are changed to VM_READ|VM_WRITE later, and
we are currently rejecting this use case as well."
[1] https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/qemu/blob/5a356e/hw/virtio/vhost-user-fs.c#L488
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jia He <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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