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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] hyperv: root partition faults writing to VP ASSIST MSR PAGE
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 09:45:36PM +0530, Praveen Kumar wrote:
> >
> > I think about this a bit more, the NULL check for *hvp in hv_cpu_init in
> > the original code is perhaps due to the code has opted to not free the
> > page when disabling the VP assist page. When the CPU is brought back
> > online, it does not want to allocate another page, but to use the one
> > that's already allocated.
> >
> > So, since you listened to my suggestion to add a similar check, you need
> > to reset hv_vp_assist_page to NULL here. Alternatively the check for
> > *hvp can be dropped for the root path. Either way, the difference
> > between root and non-root should be documented.
> >
>
> I would make it as NULL post memunmap as you suggested, so that we
> don't end up reusing the old/cached value. Before doing that, is there
> any use-case where hypervisor can allocate or change the VP assist
> page that can impact root kernel execution ?

I don't think a sane hypervisor will change the page in such a way.

Wei.

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