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    KVM: x86/mmu: Unconditionally zap unsync SPs when creating >4k SP at GFN · ddc16abb
    Sean Christopherson authored
    When creating a new upper-level shadow page, zap unsync shadow pages at
    the same target gfn instead of attempting to sync the pages.  This fixes
    a bug where an unsync shadow page could be sync'd with an incompatible
    context, e.g. wrong smm, is_guest, etc... flags.  In practice, the bug is
    relatively benign as sync_page() is all but guaranteed to fail its check
    that the guest's desired gfn (for the to-be-sync'd page) matches the
    current gfn associated with the shadow page.  I.e. kvm_sync_page() would
    end up zapping the page anyways.
    
    Alternatively, __kvm_sync_page() could be modified to explicitly verify
    the mmu_role of the unsync shadow page is compatible with the current MMU
    context.  But, except for this specific case, __kvm_sync_page() is called
    iff the page is compatible, e.g. the transient sync in kvm_mmu_get_page()
    requires an exact role match, and the call from kvm_sync_mmu_roots() is
    only synchronizing shadow pages from the current MMU (which better be
    compatible or KVM has problems).  And as described above, attempting to
    sync shadow pages when creating an upper-level shadow page is unlikely
    to succeed, e.g. zero successful syncs were observed when running Linux
    guests despite over a million attempts.
    
    Fixes: 9f1a122f ("KVM: MMU: allow more page become unsync at getting sp time")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
    Message-Id: <20210622175739.3610207-10-seanjc@google.com>
    [Remove WARN_ON after __kvm_sync_page. - Paolo]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    ddc16abb
mmu.c 162 KB