KVM: x86/mmu: Mark SPTEs in disconnected pages as removed
When clearing TDP MMU pages what have been disconnected from the paging structure root, set the SPTEs to a special non-present value which will not be overwritten by other threads. This is needed to prevent races in which a thread is clearing a disconnected page table, but another thread has already acquired a pointer to that memory and installs a mapping in an already cleared entry. This can lead to memory leaks and accounting errors. Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Message-Id: <20210202185734.1680553-23-bgardon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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