linux-uconsole/arch
Sean Christopherson fac026dac0 KVM: x86/mmu: Treat invalid shadow pages as obsolete
Treat invalid shadow pages as obsolete to fix a bug where an obsolete
and invalid page with a non-zero root count could become non-obsolete
due to mmu_valid_gen wrapping.  The bug is largely theoretical with the
current code base, as an unsigned long will effectively never wrap on
64-bit KVM, and userspace would have to deliberately stall a vCPU in
order to keep an obsolete invalid page on the active list while
simultaneously modifying memslots billions of times to trigger a wrap.

The obvious alternative is to use a 64-bit value for mmu_valid_gen,
but it's actually desirable to go in the opposite direction, i.e. using
a smaller 8-bit value to reduce KVM's memory footprint by 8 bytes per
shadow page, and relying on proper treatment of invalid pages instead of
preventing the generation from wrapping.

Note, "Fixes" points at a commit that was at one point reverted, but has
since been restored.

Fixes: 5304b8d37c ("KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all pages")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-09-24 14:35:12 +02:00
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alpha Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
arc Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
arm pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
arm64 pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
c6x dma-mapping: remove CONFIG_ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP 2019-09-04 11:13:18 +02:00
csky hmm related patches for 5.4 2019-09-21 10:07:42 -07:00
h8300 h8300 update for 5.3 2019-07-17 09:36:38 -07:00
hexagon hexagon: switch to generic version of pte allocation 2019-07-21 09:53:00 -07:00
ia64 Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
m68k Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
microblaze pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
mips pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
nds32 dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
nios2 nios2 update for v5.3-rc1 2019-07-12 15:38:05 -07:00
openrisc hmm related patches for 5.4 2019-09-21 10:07:42 -07:00
parisc Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
powerpc pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
riscv Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
s390 hmm related patches for 5.4 2019-09-21 10:07:42 -07:00
sh dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
sparc pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
um This pull request contains the following changes for UML: 2019-09-21 11:07:02 -07:00
unicore32 dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
x86 KVM: x86/mmu: Treat invalid shadow pages as obsolete 2019-09-24 14:35:12 +02:00
xtensa dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
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Kconfig powerpc updates for 5.4 2019-09-20 11:48:06 -07:00