KVM: Assume that writes smaller than 4 bytes are to non-pagetable pages

This allows us to remove write protection earlier than otherwise.  Should
some mad OS choose to use byte writes to update pagetables, it will suffer
a performance hit, but still work correctly.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/kvm/mmu.c b/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
index e8e228118de9..2277b7cd118c 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1169,6 +1169,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_pre_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, int bytes)
                         continue;
                 pte_size = page->role.glevels == PT32_ROOT_LEVEL ? 4 : 8;
                 misaligned = (offset ^ (offset + bytes - 1)) & ~(pte_size - 1);
+                misaligned |= bytes < 4;
                 if (misaligned || flooded) {
                         /*
                          * Misaligned accesses are too much trouble to fix