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[10/11] KVM: MMU: fix detecting misaligned accessed

Message ID 4E4A1237.6060609@cn.fujitsu.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Xiao Guangrong Aug. 16, 2011, 6:46 a.m. UTC
Sometimes, we only modify the last one byte of a pte to update status bit,
for example, clear_bit is used to clear r/w bit in linux kernel and 'andb'
instruction is used in this function, in this case, kvm_mmu_pte_write will
treat it as misaligned access, and the shadow page table is zapped

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
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 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index cfe24fe..adaa160 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -3601,6 +3601,14 @@  static bool detect_write_misaligned(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, gpa_t gpa,
 
 	offset = offset_in_page(gpa);
 	pte_size = sp->role.cr4_pae ? 8 : 4;
+
+	/*
+	 * Sometimes, the OS only writes the last one bytes to update status
+	 * bits, for example, in linux, andb instruction is used in clear_bit().
+	 */
+	if (!(offset & (pte_size - 1)) && bytes == 1)
+		return false;
+
 	misaligned = (offset ^ (offset + bytes - 1)) & ~(pte_size - 1);
 	misaligned |= bytes < 4;