Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 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.
>   

Applied, thanks.  Impressive catch.

-- 
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