2.6.30-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Marcelo Tosatti (cherry picked from commit 6a1ac77110ee3e8d8dfdef8442f3b30b3d83e6a2) n_requested_mmu_pages/n_free_mmu_pages are used by kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages to calculate the number of pages to zap. alloc_mmu_pages, called from the vcpu initialization path, modifies this variables without proper locking, which can result in a negative value in kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages (say, with cpu hotplug). Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -2692,12 +2692,14 @@ static int alloc_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vc ASSERT(vcpu); + spin_lock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock); if (vcpu->kvm->arch.n_requested_mmu_pages) vcpu->kvm->arch.n_free_mmu_pages = vcpu->kvm->arch.n_requested_mmu_pages; else vcpu->kvm->arch.n_free_mmu_pages = vcpu->kvm->arch.n_alloc_mmu_pages; + spin_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock); /* * When emulating 32-bit mode, cr3 is only 32 bits even on x86_64. * Therefore we need to allocate shadow page tables in the first -- 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/