Read-only large sptes can be created due to read-only faults as
follows:
- QEMU pagetable entry that maps guest memory is read-only
due to COW.
- Guest read faults such memory, COW is not broken, because
it is a read-only fault.
- Enable dirty logging, large spte not nuked because it is read-only.
- Write-fault on such memory causes guest to loop endlessly
(which must go down to level 1 because dirty logging is enabled).
Fix by dropping large spte when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index e50425d..9b53135 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2672,6 +2672,7 @@ static int __direct_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t v,
int write,
break;
}
+ drop_large_spte(vcpu, iterator.sptep);
if (!is_shadow_present_pte(*iterator.sptep)) {
u64 base_addr = iterator.addr;
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