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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: KVM: MMU: always invalidate and flush on spte page size change
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:44:59 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100528124459.GA3734@amt.cnet> (raw)


Always invalidate spte and flush TLBs when changing page size, to make
sure different sized translations for the same address are never cached
in a CPU's TLB.

The first case where this occurs is when a non-leaf spte pointer is
overwritten by a leaf, large spte entry. This can happen after dirty
logging is disabled on a memslot, for example.

The second case is a leaf, large spte entry is overwritten with a
non-leaf spte pointer, in __direct_map. Note this cannot happen now
because the only potential source of such overwrite is dirty logging
being enabled, which zaps all MMU pages. But this might change 
in the future, so better be robust against it.

Noticed by Andrea.

KVM-Stable-Tag
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Index: kvm/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
===================================================================
--- kvm.orig/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ kvm/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1952,6 +1952,8 @@ static void mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu
 
 			child = page_header(pte & PT64_BASE_ADDR_MASK);
 			mmu_page_remove_parent_pte(child, sptep);
+			__set_spte(sptep, shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte);
+			kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
 		} else if (pfn != spte_to_pfn(*sptep)) {
 			pgprintk("hfn old %lx new %lx\n",
 				 spte_to_pfn(*sptep), pfn);
@@ -2015,6 +2017,16 @@ static int __direct_map(struct kvm_vcpu 
 			break;
 		}
 
+		if (is_shadow_present_pte(*iterator.sptep) &&
+		    !is_large_pte(*iterator.sptep))
+			continue;
+
+		if (is_large_pte(*iterator.sptep)) {
+			rmap_remove(vcpu->kvm, iterator.sptep);
+			__set_spte(iterator.sptep, shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte);
+			kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
+		}
+
 		if (*iterator.sptep == shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte) {
 			u64 base_addr = iterator.addr;
 

             reply	other threads:[~2010-05-28 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-28 12:44 Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2010-05-30 10:28 ` KVM: MMU: always invalidate and flush on spte page size change Avi Kivity
2010-05-30 15:19   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-05-31 11:49     ` Avi Kivity

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