A guest may request ask a memory-mapped device to perform DMA. If the
address specified for DMA is the device performing DMA, it will create
recursion. It is very unlikely that device implementations are prepared
for such an abnormal access, which can result in unpredictable behavior.
In particular, such a recursion breaks e1000e, a network device. If
the device is configured to write the received packet to the register
to trigger receiving, it triggers re-entry to the Rx logic of e1000e.
This causes use-after-free since the Rx logic is not re-entrant.
As there should be no valid reason to perform recursive memory access,
check for recursion before accessing memory-mapped device.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1543
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
---
V1 -> V2: Marked the variable thread-local. Introduced linked list.
softmmu/memory.c | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/softmmu/memory.c b/softmmu/memory.c
index 4699ba55ec..6be33a9e3e 100644
--- a/softmmu/memory.c
+++ b/softmmu/memory.c
@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ struct AddrRange {
Int128 size;
};
+typedef struct AccessedRegion AccessedRegion;
+
+struct AccessedRegion {
+ const Object *owner;
+ const AccessedRegion *next;
+};
+
+static __thread const AccessedRegion *accessed_region;
+
static AddrRange addrrange_make(Int128 start, Int128 size)
{
return (AddrRange) { start, size };
@@ -1394,6 +1403,16 @@ bool memory_region_access_valid(MemoryRegion *mr,
return false;
}
+ for (const AccessedRegion *ar = accessed_region; ar; ar =
ar->next) {
+ if (ar->owner == mr->owner) {
+ qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR, "Invalid %s at addr 0x%"
HWADDR_PRIX
+ ", size %u, region '%s', reason: recursive
access\n",
+ is_write ? "write" : "read",
+ addr, size, memory_region_name(mr));
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+
/* Treat zero as compatibility all valid */
if (!mr->ops->valid.max_access_size) {
return true;
@@ -1413,6 +1432,29 @@ bool memory_region_access_valid(MemoryRegion *mr,
return true;
}
+static bool memory_region_access_start(MemoryRegion *mr,
+ hwaddr addr,
+ unsigned size,
+ bool is_write,
+ MemTxAttrs attrs,
+ AccessedRegion *ar)
+{
+ if (!memory_region_access_valid(mr, addr, size, is_write, attrs)) {
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ ar->owner = mr->owner;
+ ar->next = accessed_region;
+ accessed_region = ar->next;