[Xen-changelog] [xen stable-4.8] x86/paging: don't unconditionally BUG() on finding SHARED_M2P_ENTRY

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commit 6fc1f55e7d90b9daaac9eb075561c336b91013fe
Author:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue Dec 12 14:45:25 2017 +0100
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue Dec 12 14:45:25 2017 +0100

    x86/paging: don't unconditionally BUG() on finding SHARED_M2P_ENTRY
    
    PV guests can fully control the values written into the P2M.
    
    This is XSA-251.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
    master commit: b4d0218cff66b7eaa9c9b8dc9bd71e7b089b016d
    master date: 2017-12-12 14:30:17 +0100
---
 xen/arch/x86/mm/paging.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/mm/paging.c b/xen/arch/x86/mm/paging.c
index cc44682..b5a8225 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/paging.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/paging.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ void paging_mark_gfn_dirty(struct domain *d, unsigned long 
pfn)
         return;
 
     /* Shared MFNs should NEVER be marked dirty */
-    BUG_ON(SHARED_M2P(pfn));
+    BUG_ON(paging_mode_translate(d) && SHARED_M2P(pfn));
 
     /*
      * Values with the MSB set denote MFNs that aren't really part of the
--
generated by git-patchbot for /home/xen/git/xen.git#stable-4.8

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