On 08/30/2011 05:34 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
kvm_mmu_pte_write is unsafe since we need to alloc pte_list_desc in the function when spte is prefetched, unfortunately, we can not know how many spte need to be prefetched on this path, that means we can use out of the free pte_list_desc object in the cache, and BUG_ON() is triggered, also some path does not fill the cache, such as INS instruction emulated that does not trigger page fault @@ -3716,10 +3735,6 @@ int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u32 error_code, goto out; } - r = mmu_topup_memory_caches(vcpu); - if (r) - goto out; - er = x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, cr2, 0, insn, insn_len);
Suppose we are out of memory, can't this get us in an endless loop? return -ENOMEM breaks as out (and kills the guest, likely). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
