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Commit 1493e0f9 authored by David Hildenbrand's avatar David Hildenbrand Committed by Christian Borntraeger
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KVM: s390: vsie: Fix possible race when shadowing region 3 tables

We have to properly retry again by returning -EINVAL immediately in case
somebody else instantiated the table concurrently. We missed to add the
goto in this function only. The code now matches the other, similar
shadowing functions.

We are overwriting an existing region 2 table entry. All allocated pages
are added to the crst_list to be freed later, so they are not lost
forever. However, when unshadowing the region 2 table, we wouldn't trigger
unshadowing of the original shadowed region 3 table that we replaced. It
would get unshadowed when the original region 3 table is modified. As it's
not connected to the page table hierarchy anymore, it's not going to get
used anymore. However, for a limited time, this page table will stick
around, so it's in some sense a temporary memory leak.

Identified by manual code inspection. I don't think this classifies as
stable material.

Fixes: 998f637c

 ("s390/mm: avoid races on region/segment/page table shadowing")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200403153050.20569-4-david@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: default avatarClaudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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