linux/arch/powerpc
Paul Mackerras 73e56fdc36 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix race in reading change bit when removing HPTE
commit 1e5bf454f5 upstream.

The reference (R) and change (C) bits in a HPT entry can be set by
hardware at any time up until the HPTE is invalidated and the TLB
invalidation sequence has completed.  This means that when removing
a HPTE, we need to read the HPTE after the invalidation sequence has
completed in order to obtain reliable values of R and C.  The code
in kvmppc_do_h_remove() used to do this.  However, commit 6f22bd3265
("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make HTAB code LE host aware") removed the
read after invalidation as a side effect of other changes.  This
restores the read of the HPTE after invalidation.

The user-visible effect of this bug would be that when migrating a
guest, there is a small probability that a page modified by the guest
and then unmapped by the guest might not get re-transmitted and thus
the destination might end up with a stale copy of the page.

Fixes: 6f22bd3265
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2015-09-21 10:05:41 -07:00
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boot powerpc: Remove the celleb support 2015-04-07 17:15:13 +10:00
configs powerpc: Remove the celleb support 2015-04-07 17:15:13 +10:00
crypto crypto: powerpc - move files to fix build error 2015-03-09 21:06:19 +11:00
include Revert "powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions" 2015-04-30 15:24:58 +10:00
kernel signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_from_user32 2015-08-16 20:52:26 -07:00
kvm KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix race in reading change bit when removing HPTE 2015-09-21 10:05:41 -07:00
lib powerpc: Export __spin_yield 2015-04-21 15:21:28 +02:00
math-emu powerpc: Correct emulated mtfsf instruction 2014-04-07 10:33:11 +10:00
mm powerpc/mm: Return NULL for not present hugetlb page 2015-05-12 11:04:29 +10:00
net ppc: bpf: Add SKF_AD_CPU for ppc32 2015-02-20 15:19:43 -05:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: reduce mmap_sem hold for exe_file 2015-04-17 09:04:11 -04:00
perf powerpc/perf: Fix book3s kernel to userspace backtraces 2015-07-10 09:49:35 -07:00
platforms powerpc/pseries: Correct cpu affinity for dlpar added cpus 2015-05-01 13:47:24 +10:00
sysdev powerpc: dart_iommu: Remove check for controller_ops == NULL case 2015-04-11 20:49:19 +10:00
xmon powerpc updates for 3.20 2015-02-11 18:15:38 -08:00
Kconfig powerpc updates for 4.1 2015-04-16 13:53:32 -05:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Remove the celleb support 2015-04-07 17:15:13 +10:00
Makefile powerpc: Convert relocs_check to a shell script using grep 2015-03-23 14:47:39 +11:00
relocs_check.sh powerpc: Convert relocs_check to a shell script using grep 2015-03-23 14:47:39 +11:00