From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: KVM: MMU: avoid creation of unreachable pages in the shadow
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:33:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081125143310.GA11578@dmt.cnet> (raw)
It is possible for a shadow page to have a parent link
pointing to a freed page. When zapping a high level table,
kvm_mmu_page_unlink_children fails to remove the parent_pte link.
For that to happen, the child must be unreachable via the shadow
tree, which can happen in shadow_walk_entry if the guest pte was
modified in between walk() and fetch(). Remove the parent pte
reference in such case.
Possible cause for oops in bug #2217430.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
index 613ec9a..84eee43 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ static int FNAME(shadow_walk_entry)(struct kvm_shadow_walk *_sw,
r = kvm_read_guest_atomic(vcpu->kvm, gw->pte_gpa[level - 2],
&curr_pte, sizeof(curr_pte));
if (r || curr_pte != gw->ptes[level - 2]) {
+ kvm_mmu_put_page(shadow_page, sptep);
kvm_release_pfn_clean(sw->pfn);
sw->sptep = NULL;
return 1;
next reply other threads:[~2008-11-25 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-25 14:33 Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2008-11-25 18:27 ` KVM: MMU: avoid creation of unreachable pages in the shadow John Rousseau
2008-11-25 15:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-11-25 19:01 ` John Rousseau
2008-11-29 4:15 ` John Rousseau
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