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authorNadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>2016-05-11 08:04:29 -0700
committerRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>2016-06-02 17:38:50 +0200
commitb19ee2ff3b287fea48a2896a381e31319394fe58 (patch)
treef1678e5632fa80ba384d77546a26fd2b6a963725 /arch
parent13e98fd1efc7f65cab1bba6cfab7859840f9aa66 (diff)
KVM: x86: avoid write-tearing of TDP
In theory, nothing prevents the compiler from write-tearing PTEs, or split PTE writes. These partially-modified PTEs can be fetched by other cores and cause mayhem. I have not really encountered such case in real-life, but it does seem possible. For example, the compiler may try to do something creative for kvm_set_pte_rmapp() and perform multiple writes to the PTE. Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 24e800116ab4..def97b3a392b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -336,12 +336,12 @@ static gfn_t pse36_gfn_delta(u32 gpte)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
static void __set_spte(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
{
- *sptep = spte;
+ WRITE_ONCE(*sptep, spte);
}
static void __update_clear_spte_fast(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
{
- *sptep = spte;
+ WRITE_ONCE(*sptep, spte);
}
static u64 __update_clear_spte_slow(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ static void __set_spte(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
*/
smp_wmb();
- ssptep->spte_low = sspte.spte_low;
+ WRITE_ONCE(ssptep->spte_low, sspte.spte_low);
}
static void __update_clear_spte_fast(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ static void __update_clear_spte_fast(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
ssptep = (union split_spte *)sptep;
sspte = (union split_spte)spte;
- ssptep->spte_low = sspte.spte_low;
+ WRITE_ONCE(ssptep->spte_low, sspte.spte_low);
/*
* If we map the spte from present to nonpresent, we should clear