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authorAvi Kivity2010-05-12 11:48:18 +0300
committerAvi Kivity2010-05-19 11:41:09 +0300
commit3dbe141595faa48a067add3e47bba3205b79d33c (patch)
treea7d37004d0021298ed305810543ae6a3a4ed79e2 /arch/x86/kvm
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index de996380ec26..81563e76e28f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_set_mask_ptes(u64 user_mask, u64 accessed_mask,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_mmu_set_mask_ptes);
-static int is_write_protection(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+static bool is_write_protection(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
return kvm_read_cr0_bits(vcpu, X86_CR0_WP);
}
@@ -2432,6 +2432,7 @@ static int init_kvm_softmmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
r = paging32_init_context(vcpu);
vcpu->arch.mmu.base_role.cr4_pae = !!is_pae(vcpu);
+ vcpu->arch.mmu.base_role.cr0_wp = is_write_protection(vcpu);
return r;
}