[Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] ept: Put locks around ept_get_entry

[Xen patchbot-unstable <patchbot-unstable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

# HG changeset patch
# User Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1283153992 -3600
# Node ID c5aed2e049bce2724b035dd6aa09c4c4e609c27c
# Parent  20920c12bc4815b1f755786c0924393809664807
ept: Put locks around ept_get_entry

There's a subtle race in ept_get_entry, such that if tries to read an
entry that ept_set_entry is modifying, it gets neither the old entry
nor the new entry, but empty.  In the case of multi-cpu
populate-on-demand guests, this manifests as a guest crash when one
vcpu tries to read a page which another page is trying to populate,
and ept_get_entry returns p2m_mmio_dm.

This bug can also be fixed by making both ept_set_entry and
ept_next_level access-once (i.e., ept_next_level reads full ept_entry
and then works with local value; ept_set_entry construct the entry
locally and then sets it in one write).  But there doesn't seem to be
any major performance implications of just making ept_get_entry use
locks; so the simpler, the better.

Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 xen/arch/x86/mm/hap/p2m-ept.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff -r 20920c12bc48 -r c5aed2e049bc xen/arch/x86/mm/hap/p2m-ept.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/hap/p2m-ept.c     Mon Aug 30 08:38:26 2010 +0100
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/hap/p2m-ept.c     Mon Aug 30 08:39:52 2010 +0100
@@ -431,6 +431,10 @@ static mfn_t ept_get_entry(struct p2m_do
     int i;
     int ret = 0;
     mfn_t mfn = _mfn(INVALID_MFN);
+    int do_locking = !p2m_locked_by_me(p2m);
+
+    if ( do_locking )
+        p2m_lock(p2m);
 
     *t = p2m_mmio_dm;
 
@@ -507,6 +511,8 @@ static mfn_t ept_get_entry(struct p2m_do
     }
 
 out:
+    if ( do_locking )
+        p2m_unlock(p2m);
     unmap_domain_page(table);
     return mfn;
 }

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