linux-kernel - [PATCH] lguest: Accept guest _PAGE

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Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:51:20 +0200
From:	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Rusty Russel <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, lguest@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] lguest: Accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:59:23AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Beginning from commit 4138cc3418f5, ioremap_nocache() sets the _PAGE_PWT
> > flag. 
> > 
> > Lguest doesn't accept a guest pte with a _PWT flag and reports a "bad 
> > page table entry" in that case.
> > 
> > I've removed check from lguest code and everything worked fine. Is 
> > this safe from the Lguest side ?
> 
> yes, should be safe. Could you send a patch so that others can apply it 
> too?
> 

Ofcourse :) :

Accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries, otherwise lguest will
always fail with a "bad page table entry" message.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@...il.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/lguest/page_tables.c b/drivers/lguest/page_tables.c
index 74b4cf2..952160b 100644
--- a/drivers/lguest/page_tables.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/page_tables.c
@@ -178,8 +178,8 @@ static void release_pte(pte_t pte)
 
 static void check_gpte(struct lg_cpu *cpu, pte_t gpte)
 {
-	if ((pte_flags(gpte) & (_PAGE_PWT|_PAGE_PSE))
-	    || pte_pfn(gpte) >= cpu->lg->pfn_limit)
+	if ((pte_flags(gpte) & _PAGE_PSE) || 
+	    pte_pfn(gpte) >= cpu->lg->pfn_limit)
 		kill_guest(cpu, "bad page table entry");
 }
 

Regards,

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