Re: [Qemu-devel] javac crash in user-mode emulation: races on page_unprotect()

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 27 November 2017 at 15:53, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 27/11/2017 15:47, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> I have a patch from rth based on an idea he and I came up with:
>> we add a field to the PageDesc struct to store the thread id of
>> the thread that last touches the flags. If you come into the
>> segv handler and the page flags/last-modified-by field say "should be
>> writeable and somebody else updated it" then you mark the page as
>> "last modified by this thread" and retry the access. If the
>> flags say "should be writeable, last modified by this thread"
>> then you know the page state hasn't changed since this thread
>> last saw it as "definitely not causing segvs because of cached TBs",
>> and so that should be passed on as a guest SEGV.
>
> Clever, but why would si_code not work?...

Do we have a guarantee that it's absolutely never the case that
you can get a SEGV with si_code SEGV_ACCERR for an access to memory
that's mapped writeable (and conversely that we'll always get
SEGV_ACCERR for the "mapped nonwriteable" case)? If it's ever possible
then the guest will go into an infinite loop of taking segfaults that
should be delivered to the guest but which we just retry the failing
access for forever...

thanks
-- PMM