x86: skip check for spurious faults for non-present faults
If a fault on a kernel address is due to a non-present page, then it cannot be the result of stale TLB entry from a protection change (RO to RW or NX to X). Thus the pagetable walk in spurious_fault() can be skipped. See the initial if in spurious_fault() and the tests in spurious_fault_check()) for the set of possible error codes checked for spurious faults. These are: IRUWP Before x00xx && ( 1xxxx || xxx1x ) After ( 10001 || 00011 ) && ( 1xxxx || xxx1x ) Thus the new condition is a subset of the previous one, excluding only non-present faults (I == 1 and W == 1 are mutually exclusive). This avoids spurious_fault() oopsing in some cases if the pagetables it attempts to walk are not accessible. This obscures the location of the original fault. This also fixes a crash with Xen PV guests when they access entries in the M2P corresponding to device MMIO regions. The M2P is mapped (read-only) by Xen into the kernel address space of the guest and this mapping may contains holes for non-RAM regions. Read faults will result in calls to spurious_fault(), but because the page tables for the M2P mappings are not accessible by the guest the pagetable walk would fault. This was not normally a problem as MMIO mappings would not normally result in a M2P lookup because of the use of the _PAGE_IOMAP bit the PTE. However, removing the _PAGE_IOMAP bit requires M2P lookups for MMIO mappings as well. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
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