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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-05-12 04:48:18 -0400
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-05-19 04:41:09 -0400
commit3dbe141595faa48a067add3e47bba3205b79d33c (patch)
treea7d37004d0021298ed305810543ae6a3a4ed79e2 /arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
parenta3d204e28579427609c3d15d2310127ebaa47d94 (diff)
KVM: MMU: Segregate shadow pages with different cr0.wp
When cr0.wp=0, we may shadow a gpte having u/s=1 and r/w=0 with an spte having u/s=0 and r/w=1. This allows excessive access if the guest sets cr0.wp=1 and accesses through this spte. Fix by making cr0.wp part of the base role; we'll have different sptes for the two cases and the problem disappears. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 3f0007b076da..76f5483cffec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ union kvm_mmu_page_role {
179 unsigned access:3; 179 unsigned access:3;
180 unsigned invalid:1; 180 unsigned invalid:1;
181 unsigned nxe:1; 181 unsigned nxe:1;
182 unsigned cr0_wp:1;
182 }; 183 };
183}; 184};
184 185