[PATCH] KVM: MMU: Fix memory leak on guest demand faults

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun Mar 23 2008 - 08:21:08 EST


While backporting 72dc67a69690288538142df73a7e3ac66fea68dc, a gfn_to_page()
call was duplicated instead of moved (due to an unrelated patch not being
present in mainline). This caused a page reference leak, resulting in a
fairly massive memory leak.

Fix by removing the extraneous gfn_to_page() call.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 4ba85d9..e55af12 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ static void mmu_guess_page_from_pte_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);

vcpu->arch.update_pte.gfn = gfn;
- vcpu->arch.update_pte.page = gfn_to_page(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
+ vcpu->arch.update_pte.page = page;
}

void kvm_mmu_pte_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
--
1.5.4.2

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