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Date:   Thu, 3 Mar 2022 18:37:25 +0000
From:   Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
        Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/28] KVM: x86/mmu: WARN if old _or_ new SPTE is
 REMOVED in non-atomic path

On Sat, Feb 26, 2022, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> WARN if the new_spte being set by __tdp_mmu_set_spte() is a REMOVED_SPTE,
> which is called out by the comment as being disallowed but not actually
> checked.  Keep the WARN on the old_spte as well, because overwriting a
> REMOVED_SPTE in the non-atomic path is also disallowed (as evidence by
> lack of splats with the existing WARN).
> 
> Fixes: 08f07c800e9d ("KVM: x86/mmu: Flush TLBs after zap in TDP MMU PF handler")
> Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>

> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> index 8fbf3364f116..1dcdf1a4fcc1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> @@ -640,13 +640,13 @@ static inline void __tdp_mmu_set_spte(struct kvm *kvm, struct tdp_iter *iter,
>  	lockdep_assert_held_write(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * No thread should be using this function to set SPTEs to the
> +	 * No thread should be using this function to set SPTEs to or from the
>  	 * temporary removed SPTE value.
>  	 * If operating under the MMU lock in read mode, tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic
>  	 * should be used. If operating under the MMU lock in write mode, the
>  	 * use of the removed SPTE should not be necessary.
>  	 */
> -	WARN_ON(is_removed_spte(iter->old_spte));
> +	WARN_ON(is_removed_spte(iter->old_spte) || is_removed_spte(new_spte));
>  
>  	kvm_tdp_mmu_write_spte(iter->sptep, new_spte);
>  
> -- 
> 2.35.1.574.g5d30c73bfb-goog
>