[PATCH 27/45] KVM: take mmu_lock when updating a deleted slot

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun May 24 2009 - 11:59:25 EST


From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>

kvm_handle_hva relies on mmu_lock protection to safely access
the memslot structures.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 4d00942..bebfe59 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1210,8 +1210,10 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,

kvm_free_physmem_slot(&old, npages ? &new : NULL);
/* Slot deletion case: we have to update the current slot */
+ spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
if (!npages)
*memslot = old;
+ spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_DMAR
/* map the pages in iommu page table */
r = kvm_iommu_map_pages(kvm, base_gfn, npages);
--
1.6.0.6

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