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Re: [Xen-devel] Is this a data corruption bug for p2m_ram_shared page in hvm_hap_nested_page_fault()





On 2012å02æ02æ 19:19, Tim Deegan wrote:
At 18:25 +0800 on 02 Feb (1328207143), nai.xia wrote:
On 2012???02???02??? 18:17, nai.xia wrote:
In hvm_hap_nested_page_fault(), it seems that all valid write faults are
now handled
by p2m_mem_access_check(), right? Then when will mem_sharing_unshare_page()
be called? And if p2m->access_required == false, the access restrictions
is cleared

Oh, sorry, I notice that with p2m_ram_shared, the write permissions is
always cleared.  But, still, this seems cannot lead to the call of
mem_sharing_unshare_page() and this write fault will happen again and
again?

There's an explicit call of mem_sharing_unshare_page() in
hvm_hap_nested_page_fault(); the only thing that will skip that is if
the fault is caused by a p2m_access violation, in which case
we report the fault on the p2m_access ring and wait for the consumer of
that ring to fix the problem.

Oh, yes! I was mistaken that the write flag of p2m_access would also be
removed for p2m_ram_shared pages just like entry->w in ept_set_entry().
I am clear about the role of the p2m_access_t now.

Thanks for the reply! :)


Regards,

Nai


Cheers,

Tim.

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