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| author | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2010-05-04 15:00:37 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-07-05 11:23:03 -0700 |
| commit | 0119618803088bf8be6f287fc0e160e4a08fbfa6 (patch) | |
| tree | 700da7866e20bcdb1be7d6e096bb45cf77b1d620 | |
| parent | e995b3b2f8e5447928c7754f0702f05cc75646f6 (diff) | |
KVM: Fix wallclock version writing race
Wallclock writing uses an unprotected global variable to hold the version;
this can cause one guest to interfere with another if both write their
wallclock at the same time.
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
(Cherry-picked from commit 9ed3c444ab8987c7b219173a2f7807e3f71e234e)
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index b5c4393385a7..ead3ea4070bf 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -695,14 +695,22 @@ static int do_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned index, u64 *data) static void kvm_write_wall_clock(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t wall_clock) { - static int version; + int version; + int r; struct pvclock_wall_clock wc; struct timespec boot; if (!wall_clock) return; - version++; + r = kvm_read_guest(kvm, wall_clock, &version, sizeof(version)); + if (r) + return; + + if (version & 1) + ++version; /* first time write, random junk */ + + ++version; kvm_write_guest(kvm, wall_clock, &version, sizeof(version)); |