Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Check every prev_roots in __kvm_mmu_free_obsolete_roots()

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Mon May 23 2022 - 12:18:08 EST


On Sun, May 22, 2022, shaoqin.huang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Shaoqin Huang <shaoqin.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Iterate every prev_roots and only zap obsoleted roots.

Better would be something like:

When freeing obsolete previous roots, check prev_roots as intended, not
the current root.

Ugh, my bad. This escaped into v5.18 :-(

Fixes: 527d5cd7eece ("KVM: x86/mmu: Zap only obsolete roots if a root shadow page is zapped")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>
> Signed-off-by: Shaoqin Huang <shaoqin.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index 45e1573f8f1d..22803916a609 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -5168,7 +5168,7 @@ static void __kvm_mmu_free_obsolete_roots(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu *mmu)
> roots_to_free |= KVM_MMU_ROOT_CURRENT;
>
> for (i = 0; i < KVM_MMU_NUM_PREV_ROOTS; i++) {
> - if (is_obsolete_root(kvm, mmu->root.hpa))
> + if (is_obsolete_root(kvm, mmu->prev_roots.hpa))

My version is bad, but at least it compiles ;-)

arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c: In function ‘__kvm_mmu_free_obsolete_roots’:
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:5182:58: error: ‘(struct kvm_mmu_root_info *)&mmu->prev_roots’ is a pointer; did you mean to use ‘->’?
5182 | if (is_obsolete_root(kvm, mmu->prev_roots.hpa))
| ^
| ->


if (is_obsolete_root(kvm, mmu->prev_roots[i].hpa))

> roots_to_free |= KVM_MMU_ROOT_PREVIOUS(i);
> }
>
> --
> 2.30.2
>