KVM: MMU: flush tlb if the spte can be locklessly modified

Relax the tlb flush condition since we will write-protect the spte out of mmu
lock. Note lockless write-protection only marks the writable spte to readonly
and the spte can be writable only if both SPTE_HOST_WRITEABLE and
SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE are set (that are tested by spte_is_locklessly_modifiable)

This patch is used to avoid this kind of race:

      VCPU 0                         VCPU 1
lockless wirte protection:
      set spte.w = 0
                                 lock mmu-lock

                                 write protection the spte to sync shadow page,
                                 see spte.w = 0, then without flush tlb

				 unlock mmu-lock

                                 !!! At this point, the shadow page can still be
                                     writable due to the corrupt tlb entry
     Flush all TLB

Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Xiao Guangrong 2014-04-17 17:06:15 +08:00 committed by Marcelo Tosatti
parent c126d94f2c
commit 7f31c9595e

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@ -595,7 +595,8 @@ static bool mmu_spte_update(u64 *sptep, u64 new_spte)
* we always atomicly update it, see the comments in
* spte_has_volatile_bits().
*/
if (is_writable_pte(old_spte) && !is_writable_pte(new_spte))
if (spte_is_locklessly_modifiable(old_spte) &&
!is_writable_pte(new_spte))
ret = true;
if (!shadow_accessed_mask)