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KVM: x86/mmu: Skip the "try unsync" path iff the old SPTE was a leaf SPTE
commit 2867eb782cf7f64c2ac427596133b6f9c3f64b7a upstream. Apply make_spte()'s optimization to skip trying to unsync shadow pages if and only if the old SPTE was a leaf SPTE, as non-leaf SPTEs in direct MMUs are always writable, i.e. could trigger a false positive and incorrectly lead to KVM creating a SPTE without write-protecting or marking shadow pages unsync. This bug only affects the TDP MMU, as the shadow MMU only overwrites a shadow-present SPTE when synchronizing SPTEs (and only 4KiB SPTEs can be unsync). Specifically, mmu_set_spte() drops any non-leaf SPTEs *before* calling make_spte(), whereas the TDP MMU can do a direct replacement of a page table with the leaf SPTE. Opportunistically update the comment to explain why skipping the unsync stuff is safe, as opposed to simply saying "it's someone else's problem". Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by:Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Tested-by:
Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20241010182427.1434605-5-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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