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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-06-21 10:57:45 +0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-08-01 10:47:08 +0300
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KVM: Prevent internal slots from being COWed
If a process with a memory slot is COWed, the page will change its address (despite having an elevated reference count). This breaks internal memory slots which have their physical addresses loaded into vmcs registers (see the APIC access memory slot). Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 7ef44107a14..68be38e233f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5491,6 +5491,11 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
int user_alloc)
{
int npages = memslot->npages;
+ int map_flags = MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS;
+
+ /* Prevent internal slot pages from being moved by fork()/COW. */
+ if (memslot->id >= KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS)
+ map_flags = MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS;
/*To keep backward compatibility with older userspace,
*x86 needs to hanlde !user_alloc case.
@@ -5503,7 +5508,7 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
userspace_addr = do_mmap(NULL, 0,
npages * PAGE_SIZE,
PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
- MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS,
+ map_flags,
0);
up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);