From bed1d1dfc4a458d82bcd258082638cbba860190d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcelo Tosatti Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:56:44 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: prepopulate guest pages after write-protecting Zdenek reported a bug where a looping "dmsetup status" eventually hangs on SMP guests. The problem is that kvm_mmu_get_page() prepopulates the shadow MMU before write protecting the guest page tables. By doing so, it leaves a window open where the guest can mark a pte as present while the host has shadow cached such pte as "notrap". Accesses to such address will fault in the guest without the host having a chance to fix the situation. Fix by moving the write protection before the pte prefetch. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- Reading git-format-patch failed