KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Close race with page faults around memslot flushes
There is a potential race condition between hypervisor page faults
and flushing a memslot. It is possible for a page fault to read the
memslot before a memslot is updated and then write a PTE to the
partition-scoped page tables after kvmppc_radix_flush_memslot has
completed. (Note that this race has never been explicitly observed.)
To close this race, it is sufficient to increment the MMU sequence
number while the kvm->mmu_lock is held. That will cause
mmu_notifier_retry() to return true, and the page fault will then
return to the guest without inserting a PTE.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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