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[10/50] PPC: Fix race in mtmsr paravirt implementation

Message ID 1325639448-9494-11-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de
State New, archived
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Alexander Graf Jan. 4, 2012, 1:10 a.m. UTC 
From: Bharat Bhushan <r65777@freescale.com>

The current implementation of mtmsr and mtmsrd are racy in that it does:

  * check (int_pending == 0)
  ---> host sets int_pending = 1 <---
  * write shared page
  * done

while instead we should check for int_pending after the shared page is written.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S |   10 ++++------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
index f2b1b25..3d64c57 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kvm_emul.S
@@ -167,6 +167,9 @@  maybe_stay_in_guest:
 kvm_emulate_mtmsr_reg2:
 	ori	r30, r0, 0
 
+	/* Put MSR into magic page because we don't call mtmsr */
+	STL64(r30, KVM_MAGIC_PAGE + KVM_MAGIC_MSR, 0)
+
 	/* Check if we have to fetch an interrupt */
 	lwz	r31, (KVM_MAGIC_PAGE + KVM_MAGIC_INT)(0)
 	cmpwi	r31, 0
@@ -174,15 +177,10 @@  kvm_emulate_mtmsr_reg2:
 
 	/* Check if we may trigger an interrupt */
 	andi.	r31, r30, MSR_EE
-	beq	no_mtmsr
-
-	b	do_mtmsr
+	bne	do_mtmsr
 
 no_mtmsr:
 
-	/* Put MSR into magic page because we don't call mtmsr */
-	STL64(r30, KVM_MAGIC_PAGE + KVM_MAGIC_MSR, 0)
-
 	SCRATCH_RESTORE
 
 	/* Go back to caller */