On heavy paging with KSM I see guest data corruption. Turns out that
KSM will add pages to its tree, where the mapping return true for
pte_unused (or might become as such later). KSM will unmap such pages
and reinstantiate with different attributes (e.g. write protected or
special, e.g. in replace_page or write_protect_page)). This uncovered
a bug in our pagetable handling: We must remove the unused flag as
soon as an entry becomes present again.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-of-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
{
if (!MACHINE_HAS_NX)
pte_val(entry) &= ~_PAGE_NOEXEC;
+ if (pte_present(entry))
+ pte_val(entry) &= ~_PAGE_UNUSED;
if (mm_has_pgste(mm))
ptep_set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, entry);
else