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author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> | 2020-05-28 10:56:42 +1000 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-10-01 13:18:05 +0200 |
commit | ad9940e377fd6471766ad9f9883368ce14a5ad7a (patch) | |
tree | 85ce86ed48b72f0c2cbcbb96fcd889c7042b1304 /tools/perf | |
parent | f9c47a0cc513bd16106b48ef0ed697b5235b2dec (diff) |
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Close race with page faults around memslot flushes
[ Upstream commit 11362b1befeadaae4d159a8cddcdaf6b8afe08f9 ]
There is a potential race condition between hypervisor page faults
and flushing a memslot. It is possible for a page fault to read the
memslot before a memslot is updated and then write a PTE to the
partition-scoped page tables after kvmppc_radix_flush_memslot has
completed. (Note that this race has never been explicitly observed.)
To close this race, it is sufficient to increment the MMU sequence
number while the kvm->mmu_lock is held. That will cause
mmu_notifier_retry() to return true, and the page fault will then
return to the guest without inserting a PTE.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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