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KVM: Fix write protection race during dirty logging
authorTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Wed, 9 May 2012 13:10:39 +0000 (16:10 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 12 May 2012 16:32:19 +0000 (09:32 -0700)
commit87a6c3e2b97b6556a7184a198d7b862b101c24cd
tree9dcec2e712135f5489aca2364199deed7f0a8dcd
parentf6a0ce750df3fd54adbdbfbaf9f0736763f4f7ac
KVM: Fix write protection race during dirty logging

(cherry picked from commit 6dbf79e7164e9a86c1e466062c48498142ae6128)

This patch fixes a race introduced by:

  commit 95d4c16ce78cb6b7549a09159c409d52ddd18dae
  KVM: Optimize dirty logging by rmap_write_protect()

During protecting pages for dirty logging, other threads may also try
to protect a page in mmu_sync_children() or kvm_mmu_get_page().

In such a case, because get_dirty_log releases mmu_lock before flushing
TLB's, the following race condition can happen:

  A (get_dirty_log)     B (another thread)

  lock(mmu_lock)
  clear pte.w
  unlock(mmu_lock)
                        lock(mmu_lock)
                        pte.w is already cleared
                        unlock(mmu_lock)
                        skip TLB flush
                        return
  ...
  TLB flush

Though thread B assumes the page has already been protected when it
returns, the remaining TLB entry will break that assumption.

This patch fixes this problem by making get_dirty_log hold the mmu_lock
until it flushes the TLB's.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c