[PATCH 5/5] KVM: Fix bogus pagefault on writable pages

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

If a page is marked as dirty in the guest pte, set_pte_common() can set the
writable bit on newly-instantiated shadow pte.  This optimization avoids
a write fault after the initial read fault.

However, if a write fault instantiates the pte, fix_write_pf() incorrectly
reports the fault as a guest page fault, and the guest oopses on what appears
to be a correctly-mapped page.

Fix is to detect the condition and only report a guest page fault on a user
access to a kernel page.

With the fix, a kvm guest can survive a whole night of running the kernel
hacker's screensaver (make -j9 in a loop).

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static int FNAME(fix_write_pf)(struct kv
 	struct kvm_mmu_page *page;
 
 	if (is_writeble_pte(*shadow_ent))
-		return 0;
+		return !user || (*shadow_ent & PT_USER_MASK);
 
 	writable_shadow = *shadow_ent & PT_SHADOW_WRITABLE_MASK;
 	if (user) {

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