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Commit 33a31641 authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86/mmu: Don't allow TDP MMU to yield when recovering NX pages



Prevent the TDP MMU from yielding when zapping a gfn range during NX
page recovery.  If a flush is pending from a previous invocation of the
zapping helper, either in the TDP MMU or the legacy MMU, but the TDP MMU
has not accumulated a flush for the current invocation, then yielding
will release mmu_lock with stale TLB entries.

That being said, this isn't technically a bug fix in the current code, as
the TDP MMU will never yield in this case.  tdp_mmu_iter_cond_resched()
will yield if and only if it has made forward progress, as defined by the
current gfn vs. the last yielded (or starting) gfn.  Because zapping a
single shadow page is guaranteed to (a) find that page and (b) step
sideways at the level of the shadow page, the TDP iter will break its loop
before getting a chance to yield.

But that is all very, very subtle, and will break at the slightest sneeze,
e.g. zapping while holding mmu_lock for read would break as the TDP MMU
wouldn't be guaranteed to see the present shadow page, and thus could step
sideways at a lower level.

Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210325200119.1359384-4-seanjc@google.com>
[Add lockdep assertion. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 048f4980
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