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Commit e25f0e0c authored by Ben Gardon's avatar Ben Gardon Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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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: default avatarPeter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210202185734.1680553-23-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 08f07c80
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