[Lguest] bad page state

Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Wed Jul 23 09:20:10 EST 2008


On Tuesday 22 July 2008 23:42:58 Matias Zabaljauregui wrote:
> Hello, after trying several configurations, I cannot make lguest work
> (2.6.26).
> Maybe someone can glance at it and save me more hours of recompiling :)
> Thank you in advance.

Yes, here's the fix:

x86: fix pte_flags() to only return flags, fix lguest.

Change a15af1c9ea2750a9ff01e51615c45950bad8221b 'x86/paravirt: add
pte_flags to just get pte flags' removed lguest's private pte_flags()
in favor of a generic one.

Unfortunately, the generic one doesn't filter out the non-flags bits:
this results in lguest creating corrupt shadow page tables and blowing
up host memory.

Since noone is supposed to use the pfn part of pte_flags(), it seems
safest to always do the filtering.

Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c |    2 +-
 include/asm-x86/page.h     |    7 ++++++-
 include/asm-x86/paravirt.h |    3 +++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -r ee1a6adad3d2 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c	Mon Jul 21 12:49:25 2008 +1000
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c	Tue Jul 22 15:31:04 2008 +1000
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ struct pv_mmu_ops pv_mmu_ops = {
 #endif /* PAGETABLE_LEVELS >= 3 */
 
 	.pte_val = native_pte_val,
-	.pte_flags = native_pte_val,
+	.pte_flags = native_pte_flags,
 	.pgd_val = native_pgd_val,
 
 	.make_pte = native_make_pte,
diff -r ee1a6adad3d2 include/asm-x86/page.h
--- a/include/asm-x86/page.h	Mon Jul 21 12:49:25 2008 +1000
+++ b/include/asm-x86/page.h	Tue Jul 22 15:31:04 2008 +1000
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ static inline pteval_t native_pte_val(pt
 	return pte.pte;
 }
 
+static inline pteval_t native_pte_flags(pte_t pte)
+{
+	return native_pte_val(pte) & ~PTE_MASK;
+}
+
 #define pgprot_val(x)	((x).pgprot)
 #define __pgprot(x)	((pgprot_t) { (x) } )
 
@@ -165,7 +170,7 @@ static inline pteval_t native_pte_val(pt
 #endif
 
 #define pte_val(x)	native_pte_val(x)
-#define pte_flags(x)	native_pte_val(x)
+#define pte_flags(x)	native_pte_flags(x)
 #define __pte(x)	native_make_pte(x)
 
 #endif	/* CONFIG_PARAVIRT */
diff -r ee1a6adad3d2 include/asm-x86/paravirt.h
--- a/include/asm-x86/paravirt.h	Mon Jul 21 12:49:25 2008 +1000
+++ b/include/asm-x86/paravirt.h	Tue Jul 22 15:31:04 2008 +1000
@@ -1083,6 +1083,9 @@ static inline pteval_t pte_flags(pte_t p
 		ret = PVOP_CALL1(pteval_t, pv_mmu_ops.pte_flags,
 				 pte.pte);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_DEBUG
+	BUG_ON(ret & PTE_MASK);
+#endif
 	return ret;
 }
 



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