Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: MMU: fix relaxing permission

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On 05/26/2010 05:46 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
There is a relaxing permission operation in set_spte():

if guest's CR0.WP is not set and R/W #PF occurs in supervisor-level,
the mapping path might set to writable, then user can allow to write.

@@ -1859,8 +1859,7 @@ static int set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,

  	spte |= (u64)pfn<<  PAGE_SHIFT;

-	if ((pte_access&  ACC_WRITE_MASK)
-	    || (write_fault&&  !is_write_protection(vcpu)&&  !user_fault)) {
+	if (pte_access&  ACC_WRITE_MASK) {


The host always sets cr0.wp (in shadow mode) so we can write protect page tables. So when the guest clears cr0.wp, we emulate a gpte with gpte.w=0 and gpte.u=1 in two ways:

- spte.w=1, spte.u=0: this will allow the guest kernel to write but trap on guest user access - spte.w=0, spte.u=1: allows guest user access but traps on guest kernel writes

If the guest attempts an access that is currently disallowed, we switch to the other spte encoding.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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