linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 11/12] KVM: MMU: fix detecting misaligned accessed

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Message-ID: <4E37DBA4.4020606@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:12:36 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 11/12] KVM: MMU: fix detecting misaligned accessed

Sometimes, we only modify the last one byte of a pte to update status bit,
for example, clear_bit is used to clear r/w bit in linux kernel and 'andb'
instruction is used in this function, in this case, kvm_mmu_pte_write will
treat it as misaligned access, and the shadow page table is zapped

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index c20c9ff..67eead6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -3598,6 +3598,14 @@ static bool detect_write_misaligned(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, gpa_t gpa,
 
 	offset = offset_in_page(gpa);
 	pte_size = sp->role.cr4_pae ? 8 : 4;
+
+	/*
+	 * Sometimes, the OS only writes the last one bytes to update status
+	 * bits, for example, in linux, andb instruction is used in clear_bit().
+	 */
+	if (!(offset & (pte_size - 1)) && bytes == 1)
+		return false;
+
 	misaligned = (offset ^ (offset + bytes - 1)) & ~(pte_size - 1);
 	misaligned |= bytes < 4;
 
-- 
1.7.5.4

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