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Since cd758a9b57ee "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use __gfn_to_pfn_memslot in HPT page fault handler", it's been possible in fairly rare circumstances to load a non-present PTE in kvmppc_book3s_hv_page_fault() when running a guest on a POWER8 host. Because that case wasn't checked for, we could misinterpret the non-present PTE as being a cache-inhibited PTE. That could mismatch with the corresponding hash PTE, which would cause the function to fail with -EFAULT a little further down. That would propagate up to the KVM_RUN ioctl() generally causing the KVM userspace (usually qemu) to fall over. This addresses the problem by catching that case and returning to the guest instead. For completeness, this fixes the radix page fault handler in the same way. For radix this didn't cause any obvious misbehaviour, because we ended up putting the non-present PTE into the guest's partition-scoped page tables, leading immediately to another hypervisor data/instruction storage interrupt, which would go through the page fault path again and fix things up. Fixes: cd758a9b57ee "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use __gfn_to_pfn_memslot in HPT page fault handler" Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1820402 Reported-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Tested-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.