From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: gleb@kernel.org
Cc: avi.kivity@gmail.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: MMU: flush tlb if the spte can be locklessly modified
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:01:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1394460109-3150-5-git-send-email-xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394460109-3150-1-git-send-email-xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Relax the tlb flush condition since we will write-protect the spte out of mmu
lock. Note lockless write-protection only marks the writable spte to readonly
and the spte can be writable only if both SPTE_HOST_WRITEABLE and
SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE are set (that are tested by spte_is_locklessly_modifiable)
This patch is used to avoid this kind of race:
VCPU 0 VCPU 1
lockless wirte protection:
set spte.w = 0
lock mmu-lock
write protection the spte to sync shadow page,
see spte.w = 0, then without flush tlb
unlock mmu-lock
!!! At this point, the shadow page can still be
writable due to the corrupt tlb entry
Flush all TLB
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index b8468c8..17bb136 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -595,7 +595,8 @@ static bool mmu_spte_update(u64 *sptep, u64 new_spte)
* we always atomicly update it, see the comments in
* spte_has_volatile_bits().
*/
- if (is_writable_pte(old_spte) && !is_writable_pte(new_spte))
+ if (spte_is_locklessly_modifiable(old_spte) &&
+ !is_writable_pte(new_spte))
ret = true;
if (!shadow_accessed_mask)
--
1.8.1.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-10 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-10 14:01 [PATCH v4 0/5] KVM: x86: flush tlb out of mmu-lock after write protection Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-10 14:01 ` [PATCH 1/5] Revert "KVM: Simplify kvm->tlbs_dirty handling" Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-10 14:01 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: MMU: properly check last spte in fast_page_fault() Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-10 14:01 ` [PATCH 3/5] KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-10 14:01 ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2014-03-10 14:01 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: MMU: flush tlb out of mmu lock when write-protect the sptes Xiao Guangrong
2014-04-09 14:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-15 11:11 ` Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-25 3:29 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] KVM: x86: flush tlb out of mmu-lock after write protection Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-25 10:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-25 16:25 ` Hu Yaohui
2014-03-26 4:40 ` Hu Yaohui
2014-03-26 5:07 ` Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-26 5:30 ` Hu Yaohui
2014-03-26 4:54 ` Xiao Guangrong
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