linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/14] KVM: x86: Further clarify the logic and comments for toggling log dirty

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Date:   Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:50:11 -0800
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>,
        Makarand Sonare <makarandsonare@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 10/14] KVM: x86: Further clarify the logic and comments for
 toggling log dirty

Add a sanity check in kvm_mmu_slot_apply_flags to assert that the
LOG_DIRTY_PAGES flag is indeed being toggled, and explicitly rely on
that holding true when zapping collapsible SPTEs.  Manipulating the
CPU dirty log (PML) and write-protection also relies on this assertion,
but that's not obvious in the current code.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index e89fe98a0099..c0d22f19aed0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -10761,12 +10761,20 @@ static void kvm_mmu_slot_apply_flags(struct kvm *kvm,
 				     enum kvm_mr_change change)
 {
 	/*
-	 * Nothing to do for RO slots or CREATE/MOVE/DELETE of a slot.
-	 * See comments below.
+	 * Nothing to do for RO slots (which can't be dirtied and can't be made
+	 * writable) or CREATE/MOVE/DELETE of a slot.  See comments below.
 	 */
 	if ((change != KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY) || (new->flags & KVM_MEM_READONLY))
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * READONLY and non-flags changes were filtered out above, and the only
+	 * other flag is LOG_DIRTY_PAGES, i.e. something is wrong if dirty
+	 * logging isn't being toggled on or off.
+	 */
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!((old->flags ^ new->flags) & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES)))
+		return;
+
 	/*
 	 * Dirty logging tracks sptes in 4k granularity, meaning that large
 	 * sptes have to be split.  If live migration is successful, the guest
@@ -10784,8 +10792,7 @@ static void kvm_mmu_slot_apply_flags(struct kvm *kvm,
 	 * MOVE/DELETE: The old mappings will already have been cleaned up by
 	 *		kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot()
 	 */
-	if ((old->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES) &&
-	    !(new->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES))
+	if (!(new->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES))
 		kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_sptes(kvm, new);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.30.0.478.g8a0d178c01-goog