KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix race in reading change bit when removing HPTE
commit 1e5bf454 upstream. The reference (R) and change (C) bits in a HPT entry can be set by hardware at any time up until the HPTE is invalidated and the TLB invalidation sequence has completed. This means that when removing a HPTE, we need to read the HPTE after the invalidation sequence has completed in order to obtain reliable values of R and C. The code in kvmppc_do_h_remove() used to do this. However, commit 6f22bd32 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make HTAB code LE host aware") removed the read after invalidation as a side effect of other changes. This restores the read of the HPTE after invalidation. The user-visible effect of this bug would be that when migrating a guest, there is a small probability that a page modified by the guest and then unmapped by the guest might not get re-transmitted and thus the destination might end up with a stale copy of the page. Fixes: 6f22bd32Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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