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Commit cb02ac15 authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20241010182427.1434605-5-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 91248a2e
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