[PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove spurious clearing of dirty bit from TDP MMU SPTE

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Mar 30 2021 - 20:50:41 EST


Don't clear the dirty bit when aging a TDP MMU SPTE (in response to a MMU
notifier event). Prematurely clearing the dirty bit could cause spurious
PML updates if aging a page happened to coincide with dirty logging.

Note, tdp_mmu_set_spte_no_acc_track() flows into __handle_changed_spte(),
so the host PFN will be marked dirty, i.e. there is no potential for data
corruption.

Fixes: a6a0b05da9f3 ("kvm: x86/mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU")
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
index f0c99fa04ef2..724088bea4b0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
@@ -978,7 +978,6 @@ static int age_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,

new_spte = mark_spte_for_access_track(new_spte);
}
- new_spte &= ~shadow_dirty_mask;

tdp_mmu_set_spte_no_acc_track(kvm, &iter, new_spte);
young = 1;
--
2.31.0.291.g576ba9dcdaf-goog