From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:56:44 +0000 (-0300)
Subject: KVM: MMU: prepopulate guest pages after write-protecting
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~21505^2~50
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bed1d1dfc4a458d82bcd258082638cbba860190d;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

KVM: MMU: prepopulate guest pages after write-protecting

Zdenek reported a bug where a looping "dmsetup status" eventually hangs
on SMP guests.

The problem is that kvm_mmu_get_page() prepopulates the shadow MMU
before write protecting the guest page tables. By doing so, it leaves a
window open where the guest can mark a pte as present while the host has
shadow cached such pte as "notrap". Accesses to such address will fault
in the guest without the host having a chance to fix the situation.

Fix by moving the write protection before the pte prefetch.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 5c4c16662c68..c89bf230af67 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -852,9 +852,9 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 	sp->gfn = gfn;
 	sp->role = role;
 	hlist_add_head(&sp->hash_link, bucket);
-	vcpu->arch.mmu.prefetch_page(vcpu, sp);
 	if (!metaphysical)
 		rmap_write_protect(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
+	vcpu->arch.mmu.prefetch_page(vcpu, sp);
 	return sp;
 }