KVM: x86/mmu: Treat invalid shadow pages as obsolete
Treat invalid shadow pages as obsolete to fix a bug where an obsolete and invalid page with a non-zero root count could become non-obsolete due to mmu_valid_gen wrapping. The bug is largely theoretical with the current code base, as an unsigned long will effectively never wrap on 64-bit KVM, and userspace would have to deliberately stall a vCPU in order to keep an obsolete invalid page on the active list while simultaneously modifying memslots billions of times to trigger a wrap. The obvious alternative is to use a 64-bit value for mmu_valid_gen, but it's actually desirable to go in the opposite direction, i.e. using a smaller 8-bit value to reduce KVM's memory footprint by 8 bytes per shadow page, and relying on proper treatment of invalid pages instead of preventing the generation from wrapping. Note, "Fixes" points at a commit that was at one point reverted, but has since been restored. Fixes: 5304b8d3 ("KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all pages") Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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