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authorPaolo Bonzini2022-08-26 13:00:00 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini2022-09-01 08:37:04 +0200
commit4802bf910eee98312c4a9777ac2567e6a0445c46 (patch)
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parentmeson: remove dead assignments (diff)
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KVM: dirty ring: add missing memory barrier
The KVM_DIRTY_GFN_F_DIRTY flag ensures that the entry is valid. If the read of the fields are not ordered after the read of the flag, QEMU might see stale values. Cc: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'accel')
-rw-r--r--accel/kvm/kvm-all.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
index 8d81ab74de..136c8eaed3 100644
--- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
+++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
@@ -719,7 +719,11 @@ static void kvm_dirty_ring_mark_page(KVMState *s, uint32_t as_id,
static bool dirty_gfn_is_dirtied(struct kvm_dirty_gfn *gfn)
{
- return gfn->flags == KVM_DIRTY_GFN_F_DIRTY;
+ /*
+ * Read the flags before the value. Pairs with barrier in
+ * KVM's kvm_dirty_ring_push() function.
+ */
+ return qatomic_load_acquire(&gfn->flags) == KVM_DIRTY_GFN_F_DIRTY;
}
static void dirty_gfn_set_collected(struct kvm_dirty_gfn *gfn)