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<updated>2025-07-17T16:27:40+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add utility function for querying ring size</title>
<updated>2025-07-17T16:27:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Saurabh Sengar</name>
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<published>2024-03-30T08:51:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e8c4bd6c6e6b7e7b416c42806981c2a81370001e ]

Add a function to query for the preferred ring buffer size of VMBus
device. This will allow the drivers (eg. UIO) to allocate the most
optimized ring buffer size for devices.

Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar &lt;ssengar@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Long Li &lt;longli@microsoft.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1711788723-8593-2-git-send-email-ssengar@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 0315fef2aff9 ("uio_hv_generic: Align ring size to system page")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: util: Avoid accessing a ringbuffer not initialized yet</title>
<updated>2025-01-09T12:24:54+00:00</updated>
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<name>Michael Kelley</name>
<email>mhklinux@outlook.com</email>
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<published>2024-11-06T15:42:47+00:00</published>
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commit 07a756a49f4b4290b49ea46e089cbe6f79ff8d26 upstream.

If the KVP (or VSS) daemon starts before the VMBus channel's ringbuffer is
fully initialized, we can hit the panic below:

hv_utils: Registering HyperV Utility Driver
hv_vmbus: registering driver hv_utils
...
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
CPU: 44 UID: 0 PID: 2552 Comm: hv_kvp_daemon Tainted: G E 6.11.0-rc3+ #1
RIP: 0010:hv_pkt_iter_first+0x12/0xd0
Call Trace:
...
 vmbus_recvpacket
 hv_kvp_onchannelcallback
 vmbus_on_event
 tasklet_action_common
 tasklet_action
 handle_softirqs
 irq_exit_rcu
 sysvec_hyperv_stimer0
 &lt;/IRQ&gt;
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 asm_sysvec_hyperv_stimer0
...
 kvp_register_done
 hvt_op_read
 vfs_read
 ksys_read
 __x64_sys_read

This can happen because the KVP/VSS channel callback can be invoked
even before the channel is fully opened:
1) as soon as hv_kvp_init() -&gt; hvutil_transport_init() creates
/dev/vmbus/hv_kvp, the kvp daemon can open the device file immediately and
register itself to the driver by writing a message KVP_OP_REGISTER1 to the
file (which is handled by kvp_on_msg() -&gt;kvp_handle_handshake()) and
reading the file for the driver's response, which is handled by
hvt_op_read(), which calls hvt-&gt;on_read(), i.e. kvp_register_done().

2) the problem with kvp_register_done() is that it can cause the
channel callback to be called even before the channel is fully opened,
and when the channel callback is starting to run, util_probe()-&gt;
vmbus_open() may have not initialized the ringbuffer yet, so the
callback can hit the panic of NULL pointer dereference.

To reproduce the panic consistently, we can add a "ssleep(10)" for KVP in
__vmbus_open(), just before the first hv_ringbuffer_init(), and then we
unload and reload the driver hv_utils, and run the daemon manually within
the 10 seconds.

Fix the panic by reordering the steps in util_probe() so the char dev
entry used by the KVP or VSS daemon is not created until after
vmbus_open() has completed. This reordering prevents the race condition
from happening.

Reported-by: Dexuan Cui &lt;decui@microsoft.com&gt;
Fixes: e0fa3e5e7df6 ("Drivers: hv: utils: fix a race on userspace daemons registration")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241106154247.2271-3-mhklinux@outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241106154247.2271-3-mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: vmbus: Calculate ring buffer size for more efficient use of memory</title>
<updated>2024-04-13T10:58:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Kelley</name>
<email>mhklinux@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-29T00:45:33+00:00</published>
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commit b8209544296edbd1af186e2ea9c648642c37b18c upstream.

The VMBUS_RING_SIZE macro adds space for a ring buffer header to the
requested ring buffer size.  The header size is always 1 page, and so
its size varies based on the PAGE_SIZE for which the kernel is built.
If the requested ring buffer size is a large power-of-2 size and the header
size is small, the resulting size is inefficient in its use of memory.
For example, a 512 Kbyte ring buffer with a 4 Kbyte page size results in
a 516 Kbyte allocation, which is rounded to up 1 Mbyte by the memory
allocator, and wastes 508 Kbytes of memory.

In such situations, the exact size of the ring buffer isn't that important,
and it's OK to allocate the 4 Kbyte header at the beginning of the 512
Kbytes, leaving the ring buffer itself with just 508 Kbytes. The memory
allocation can be 512 Kbytes instead of 1 Mbyte and nothing is wasted.

Update VMBUS_RING_SIZE to implement this approach for "large" ring buffer
sizes.  "Large" is somewhat arbitrarily defined as 8 times the size of
the ring buffer header (which is of size PAGE_SIZE).  For example, for
4 Kbyte PAGE_SIZE, ring buffers of 32 Kbytes and larger use the first
4 Kbytes as the ring buffer header.  For 64 Kbyte PAGE_SIZE, ring buffers
of 512 Kbytes and larger use the first 64 Kbytes as the ring buffer
header.  In both cases, smaller sizes add space for the header so
the ring size isn't reduced too much by using part of the space for
the header.  For example, with a 64 Kbyte page size, we don't want
a 128 Kbyte ring buffer to be reduced to 64 Kbytes by allocating half
of the space for the header.  In such a case, the memory allocation
is less efficient, but it's the best that can be done.

While the new algorithm slightly changes the amount of space allocated
for ring buffers by drivers that use VMBUS_RING_SIZE, the devices aren't
known to be sensitive to small changes in ring buffer size, so there
shouldn't be any effect.

Fixes: c1135c7fd0e9 ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Introduce types of GPADL")
Fixes: 6941f67ad37d ("hv_netvsc: Calculate correct ring size when PAGE_SIZE is not 4 Kbytes")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218502
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Saurabh Sengar &lt;ssengar@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dexuan Cui &lt;decui@microsoft.com&gt;
Tested-by: Souradeep Chakrabarti &lt;schakrabarti@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240229004533.313662-1-mhklinux@outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20240229004533.313662-1-mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hv_netvsc: Use vmbus_requestor to generate transaction IDs for VMBus hardening</title>
<updated>2024-03-15T14:48:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andres Beltran</name>
<email>lkmlabelt@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-09T10:04:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4d18fcc95f50950a99bd940d4e61a983f91d267a ]

Currently, pointers to guest memory are passed to Hyper-V as
transaction IDs in netvsc. In the face of errors or malicious
behavior in Hyper-V, netvsc should not expose or trust the transaction
IDs returned by Hyper-V to be valid guest memory addresses. Instead,
use small integers generated by vmbus_requestor as requests
(transaction) IDs.

Signed-off-by: Andres Beltran &lt;lkmlabelt@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) &lt;parri.andrea@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) &lt;parri.andrea@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109100402.8946-4-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 9cae43da9867 ("hv_netvsc: Register VF in netvsc_probe if NET_DEVICE_REGISTER missed")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add vmbus_requestor data structure for VMBus hardening</title>
<updated>2024-03-15T14:48:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andres Beltran</name>
<email>lkmlabelt@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-09T10:04:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e8b7db38449ac5b950a3f00519171c4be3e226ff ]

Currently, VMbus drivers use pointers into guest memory as request IDs
for interactions with Hyper-V. To be more robust in the face of errors
or malicious behavior from a compromised Hyper-V, avoid exposing
guest memory addresses to Hyper-V. Also avoid Hyper-V giving back a
bad request ID that is then treated as the address of a guest data
structure with no validation. Instead, encapsulate these memory
addresses and provide small integers as request IDs.

Signed-off-by: Andres Beltran &lt;lkmlabelt@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) &lt;parri.andrea@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) &lt;parri.andrea@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109100402.8946-2-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 9cae43da9867 ("hv_netvsc: Register VF in netvsc_probe if NET_DEVICE_REGISTER missed")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>video: hyperv_fb: Avoid taking busy spinlock on panic path</title>
<updated>2023-01-14T09:16:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guilherme G. Piccoli</name>
<email>gpiccoli@igalia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-19T22:17:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1d044ca035dc22df0d3b39e56f2881071d9118bd ]

The Hyper-V framebuffer code registers a panic notifier in order
to try updating its fbdev if the kernel crashed. The notifier
callback is straightforward, but it calls the vmbus_sendpacket()
routine eventually, and such function takes a spinlock for the
ring buffer operations.

Panic path runs in atomic context, with local interrupts and
preemption disabled, and all secondary CPUs shutdown. That said,
taking a spinlock might cause a lockup if a secondary CPU was
disabled with such lock taken. Fix it here by checking if the
ring buffer spinlock is busy on Hyper-V framebuffer panic notifier;
if so, bail-out avoiding the potential lockup scenario.

Cc: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) &lt;parri.andrea@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dexuan Cui &lt;decui@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;sthemmin@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Tianyu Lan &lt;Tianyu.Lan@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Fabio A M Martins &lt;fabiomirmar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220819221731.480795-10-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>hv: hyperv.h: Introduce some hvpfn helper functions</title>
<updated>2020-09-28T08:55:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boqun Feng</name>
<email>boqun.feng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-16T03:48:12+00:00</published>
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When a guest communicate with the hypervisor, it must use HV_HYP_PAGE to
calculate PFN, so introduce a few hvpfn helper functions as the
counterpart of the page helper functions. This is the preparation for
supporting guest whose PAGE_SIZE is not 4k.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200916034817.30282-7-boqun.feng@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Drivers: hv: vmbus: Move virt_to_hvpfn() to hyperv header</title>
<updated>2020-09-28T08:55:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boqun Feng</name>
<email>boqun.feng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-16T03:48:11+00:00</published>
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There will be more places other than vmbus where we need to calculate
the Hyper-V page PFN from a virtual address, so move virt_to_hvpfn() to
hyperv generic header.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200916034817.30282-6-boqun.feng@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: vmbus: Introduce types of GPADL</title>
<updated>2020-09-28T08:55:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boqun Feng</name>
<email>boqun.feng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-16T03:48:09+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces two types of GPADL: HV_GPADL_{BUFFER, RING}. The
types of GPADL are purely the concept in the guest, IOW the hypervisor
treat them as the same.

The reason of introducing the types for GPADL is to support guests whose
page size is not 4k (the page size of Hyper-V hypervisor). In these
guests, both the headers and the data parts of the ringbuffers need to
be aligned to the PAGE_SIZE, because 1) some of the ringbuffers will be
mapped into userspace and 2) we use "double mapping" mechanism to
support fast wrap-around, and "double mapping" relies on ringbuffers
being page-aligned. However, the Hyper-V hypervisor only uses 4k
(HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE) headers. Our solution to this is that we always make
the headers of ringbuffers take one guest page and when GPADL is
established between the guest and hypervisor, the only first 4k of
header is used. To handle this special case, we need the types of GPADL
to differ different guest memory usage for GPADL.

Type enum is introduced along with several general interfaces to
describe the differences between normal buffer GPADL and ringbuffer
GPADL.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200916034817.30282-4-boqun.feng@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: vmbus: Remove the lock field from the vmbus_channel struct</title>
<updated>2020-06-20T09:16:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Parri (Microsoft)</name>
<email>parri.andrea@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-17T16:46:42+00:00</published>
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The spinlock is (now) *not used to protect test-and-set accesses
to attributes of the structure or sc_list operations.

There is, AFAICT, a distinct lack of {WRITE,READ}_ONCE()s in the
handling of channel-&gt;state, but the changes below do not seem to
make things "worse".  ;-)

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) &lt;parri.andrea@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200617164642.37393-9-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
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