2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge commit 4f06b0436b2ddbd3b67b10e77098a6862787b3eb upstream. Impact: fix race leading to crash under KVM and Xen The CPA code may be called while we're in lazy mmu update mode - for example, when using DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC and doing a slab allocation in an interrupt handler which interrupted a lazy mmu update. In this case, the in-memory pagetable state may be out of date due to pending queued updates. We need to flush any pending updates before inspecting the page table. Similarly, we must explicitly flush any modifications CPA may have made (which comes down to flushing queued operations when flushing the TLB). Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -576,6 +576,13 @@ static int __change_page_attr(struct cpa else address = *cpa->vaddr; + /* + * If we're called with lazy mmu updates enabled, the + * in-memory pte state may be stale. Flush pending updates to + * bring them up to date. + */ + arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(); + repeat: kpte = lookup_address(address, &level); if (!kpte) @@ -854,6 +861,13 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsi } else cpa_flush_all(cache); + /* + * If we've been called with lazy mmu updates enabled, then + * make sure that everything gets flushed out before we + * return. + */ + arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(); + out: return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/