KVM: Fix a race condition for usage of is_hwpoison_address()

is_hwpoison_address accesses the page table, so the caller must hold
current->mm->mmap_sem in read mode. So fix its usage in hva_to_pfn of
kvm accordingly.

Comment is_hwpoison_address to remind other users.

Reported-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 378b0f6..6b44e52 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1298,6 +1298,9 @@ done:
        return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * The caller must hold current->mm->mmap_sem in read mode.
+ */
 int is_hwpoison_address(unsigned long addr)
 {
        pgd_t *pgdp;

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 74f7319..ec2e3c6 100644 (file)
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -947,12 +947,13 @@ static pfn_t hva_to_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long addr)
        if (unlikely(npages != 1)) {
                struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 
+               down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
                if (is_hwpoison_address(addr)) {
+                       up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
                        get_page(hwpoison_page);
                        return page_to_pfn(hwpoison_page);
                }
 
-               down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
                vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr);
 
                if (vma == NULL || addr < vma->vm_start ||