On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:57:19 +0000
Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]> wrote:
> We rely on the mmu_notifier call backs to handle the split/merge
> of huge pages and thus we are guaranteed that, while creating a
> block mapping, either the entire block is unmapped at stage2 or it
> is missing permission.
>
> However, we miss a case where the block mapping is split for dirty
> logging case and then could later be made block mapping, if we cancel the
> dirty logging. This not only creates inconsistent TLB entries for
> the pages in the the block, but also leakes the table pages for
> PMD level.
>
> Handle this corner case for the huge mappings at stage2 by
> unmapping the non-huge mapping for the block. This could potentially
> release the upper level table. So we need to restart the table walk
> once we unmap the range.
>
> Fixes : ad361f093c1e31d ("KVM: ARM: Support hugetlbfs backed huge pages")
> Reported-by: Zheng Xiang <[email protected]>
> Cc: Zheng Xiang <[email protected]>
> Cc: Zhenghui Yu <[email protected]>
^
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>
Applied, with Zenghui's name fixed.
Thanks,
M.
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