From b6908a04c2ad87725659a1df481921891e3516bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avi Kivity Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:05:28 +0300 Subject: KVM: MMU: Fix torn shadow pte (cherry picked from commit cd5998ebfbc9e6cb44408efa217c15d7eea13675) The shadow code assigns a pte directly in one place, which is nonatomic on i386 can can cause random memory references. Fix by using an atomic setter. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h index 934c7b619396..d333a74a1ed3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ static u64 *FNAME(fetch)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr, shadow_addr = __pa(shadow_page->spt); shadow_pte = shadow_addr | PT_PRESENT_MASK | PT_ACCESSED_MASK | PT_WRITABLE_MASK | PT_USER_MASK; - *shadow_ent = shadow_pte; + set_shadow_pte(shadow_ent, shadow_pte); } mmu_set_spte(vcpu, shadow_ent, access, walker->pte_access & access, -- cgit v1.2.3