linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] KVM: x86/mmu: check for invalid async page faults involving private memory

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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:38:28 +0200
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, 
	isaku.yamahata@...el.com, binbin.wu@...ux.intel.com, chao.gao@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] KVM: x86/mmu: check for invalid async page
 faults involving private memory

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 9:35 AM Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/17/2024 4:19 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Right now the error code is not used when an async page fault is completed.
> > This is not a problem in the current code, but it is untidy.  For protected
> > VMs, we will also need to check that the page attributes match the current
> > state of the page, because asynchronous page faults can only occur on
> > shared pages (private pages go through kvm_faultin_pfn_private() instead of
> > __gfn_to_pfn_memslot()).
> >
> > Start by piping the error code from kvm_arch_setup_async_pf() to
> > kvm_arch_async_page_ready() via the architecture-specific async page
> > fault data.
>
> It is missed in this patch ...

Ugh, thanks Xiaoyao!

Paolo