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Message-Id: <1243180230-2480-28-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 24 May 2009 18:50:12 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 27/45] KVM: take mmu_lock when updating a deleted slot

From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>

kvm_handle_hva relies on mmu_lock protection to safely access
the memslot structures.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 4d00942..bebfe59 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1210,8 +1210,10 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 
 	kvm_free_physmem_slot(&old, npages ? &new : NULL);
 	/* Slot deletion case: we have to update the current slot */
+	spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 	if (!npages)
 		*memslot = old;
+	spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DMAR
 	/* map the pages in iommu page table */
 	r = kvm_iommu_map_pages(kvm, base_gfn, npages);
-- 
1.6.0.6

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