If a process with a memory slot is COWed, the page will change its address
(despite having an elevated reference count). This breaks internal memory
slots which have their physical addresses loaded into vmcs registers (see
the APIC access memory slot).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 33156a3..d9a33e6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5633,6 +5633,11 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
int user_alloc)
{
int npages = memslot->npages;
+ int map_flags = MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS;
+
+ /* Prevent internal slot pages from being moved by fork()/COW. */
+ if (memslot->id >= KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS)
+ map_flags = MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS;
/*To keep backward compatibility with older userspace,
*x86 needs to hanlde !user_alloc case.
--
1.7.1
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