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KVM: MMU: fix conflict access permissions in direct sp

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In no-direct mapping, we mark sp is 'direct' when we mapping the
guest's larger page, but its access is encoded form upper page-struct
entire not include the last mapping, it will cause access conflict.

For example, have this mapping:
        [W]
      / PDE1 -> |---|
  P[W]          |   | LPA
      \ PDE2 -> |---|
        [R]

P have two children, PDE1 and PDE2, both PDE1 and PDE2 mapping the
same lage page(LPA). The P's access is WR, PDE1's access is WR,
PDE2's access is RO(just consider read-write permissions here)

When guest access PDE1, we will create a direct sp for LPA, the sp's
access is from P, is W, then we will mark the ptes is W in this sp.

Then, guest access PDE2, we will find LPA's shadow page, is the same as
PDE's, and mark the ptes is RO.

So, if guest access PDE1, the incorrect #PF is occured.

Fixed by encode the last mapping access into direct shadow page

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Xiao Guangrong
2010-06-30 16:02:45 +08:00
committed by Avi Kivity
parent 36a2e6774b
commit 5fd5387c89
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arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
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@@ -339,6 +339,8 @@ static u64 *FNAME(fetch)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr,
direct = 1;
if (!is_dirty_gpte(gw->ptes[level - delta]))
access &= ~ACC_WRITE_MASK;
access &= gw->pte_access;
/*
* It is a large guest pages backed by small host pages,
* So we set @direct(@sp->role.direct)=1, and set