[Xen-devel] [PATCHv1 2/3] mm: don't free pages until mm locks are released

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If a page is freed without translations being invalidated, and the page is
subsequently allocated to another domain, a guest with a cached
translation will still be able to access the page.

Currently translations are invalidated before releasing the page ref, but
while still holding the mm locks.  To allow translations to be invalidated
without holding the mm locks, we need to keep a reference to the page
for a bit longer in some cases.

[ This seems difficult to a) verify as correct; and b) difficult to get
correct in the future.  A better suggestion would be useful.  Perhaps
using something like pg->tlbflush_needed mechanism that already exists
for pages from PV guests? ]

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c | 4 ++++
 xen/common/memory.c   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c b/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c
index ed0bbd7..e13672d 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c
@@ -2758,6 +2758,7 @@ int p2m_add_foreign(struct domain *tdom, unsigned long 
fgfn,
     p2m_type_t p2mt, p2mt_prev;
     unsigned long prev_mfn, mfn;
     struct page_info *page;
+    struct page_info *prev_page = NULL;
     int rc;
     struct domain *fdom;
 
@@ -2805,6 +2806,9 @@ int p2m_add_foreign(struct domain *tdom, unsigned long 
fgfn,
     prev_mfn = mfn_x(get_gfn(tdom, gpfn, &p2mt_prev));
     if ( mfn_valid(_mfn(prev_mfn)) )
     {
+        prev_page = mfn_to_page(_mfn(prev_mfn));
+        get_page(prev_page, tdom);
+
         if ( is_xen_heap_mfn(prev_mfn) )
             /* Xen heap frames are simply unhooked from this phys slot */
             guest_physmap_remove_page(tdom, gpfn, prev_mfn, 0);
diff --git a/xen/common/memory.c b/xen/common/memory.c
index a3bffb7..571c754 100644
--- a/xen/common/memory.c
+++ b/xen/common/memory.c
@@ -272,8 +272,8 @@ int guest_remove_page(struct domain *d, unsigned long gmfn)
 
     guest_physmap_remove_page(d, gmfn, mfn, 0);
 
-    put_page(page);
     put_gfn(d, gmfn);
+    put_page(page);
 
     return 1;
 }
-- 
2.1.4


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