From: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 5c4c166..c89bf23 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;
}
--
1.5.5
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