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Commit 7f31c959 authored by Xiao Guangrong's avatar Xiao Guangrong Committed by Marcelo Tosatti
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KVM: MMU: flush tlb if the spte can be locklessly modified



Relax the tlb flush condition since we will write-protect the spte out of mmu
lock. Note lockless write-protection only marks the writable spte to readonly
and the spte can be writable only if both SPTE_HOST_WRITEABLE and
SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE are set (that are tested by spte_is_locklessly_modifiable)

This patch is used to avoid this kind of race:

      VCPU 0                         VCPU 1
lockless wirte protection:
      set spte.w = 0
                                 lock mmu-lock

                                 write protection the spte to sync shadow page,
                                 see spte.w = 0, then without flush tlb

				 unlock mmu-lock

                                 !!! At this point, the shadow page can still be
                                     writable due to the corrupt tlb entry
     Flush all TLB

Reviewed-by: default avatarMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
parent c126d94f
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