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Commit c583eed6 authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86/mmu: Set @writable to false for non-visible accesses by L2



Explicitly set @writable to false in try_async_pf() if the GFN->PFN
translation is short-circuited due to the requested GFN not being
visible to L2.

Leaving @writable ('map_writable' in the callers) uninitialized is ok
in that it's never actually consumed, but one has to track it all the
way through set_spte() being short-circuited by set_mmio_spte() to
understand that the uninitialized variable is benign, and relying on
@writable being ignored is an unnecessary risk.  Explicitly setting
@writable also aligns try_async_pf() with __gfn_to_pfn_memslot().

Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20200415214414.10194-2-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 87915858
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