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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>2021-09-18 08:56:28 +0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2021-09-23 11:01:00 -0400
commit65855ed8b03437e79e42f2a89a993206981ac6cb (patch)
tree00b8969c2b70a983e6c18d7213b3b8f4ae61d20e /kernel/padata.c
parentf81602958c115fc7c87b985f71574042a20ff858 (diff)
KVM: X86: Synchronize the shadow pagetable before link it
If gpte is changed from non-present to present, the guest doesn't need to flush tlb per SDM. So the host must synchronze sp before link it. Otherwise the guest might use a wrong mapping. For example: the guest first changes a level-1 pagetable, and then links its parent to a new place where the original gpte is non-present. Finally the guest can access the remapped area without flushing the tlb. The guest's behavior should be allowed per SDM, but the host kvm mmu makes it wrong. Fixes: 4731d4c7a077 ("KVM: MMU: out of sync shadow core") Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210918005636.3675-3-jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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