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From: Xiao Guangrong on 14 Jun 2010 23:00
In no-direct mapping, we mark sp is 'direct' when we mapping the
guest's larger page, but its access is encoded form upper page-struct
entire not include the last mapping, it will cause access conflict.

For example, have this mapping:
[W]
/ PDE1 -> |---|
P[W] | | LPA
\ PDE2 -> |---|
[R]

P have two children, PDE1 and PDE2, both PDE1 and PDE2 mapping the
same lage page(LPA). The P's access is WR, PDE1's access is WR,
PDE2's access is RO(just consider read-write permissions here)

When guest access PDE1, we will create a direct sp for LPA, the sp's
access is from P, is W, then we will mark the ptes is W in this sp.

Then, guest access PDE2, we will find LPA's shadow page, is the same as
PDE's, and mark the ptes is RO.

So, if guest access PDE1, the incorrect #PF is occured.

Fixed by encode the last mapping access into direct shadow page

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong(a)cn.fujitsu.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
index 3ebc5a0..eb47148 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -339,6 +339,8 @@ static u64 *FNAME(fetch)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr,
direct = 1;
if (!is_dirty_gpte(gw->ptes[level - delta]))
access &= ~ACC_WRITE_MASK;
+ access &= gw->pte_access;
+
/*
* It is a large guest pages backed by small host pages,
* So we set @direct(@sp->role.direct)=1, and set
--
1.6.1.2



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