KVM: Fix a race condition for usage of is_hwpoison_address()
is_hwpoison_address accesses the page table, so the caller must hold
current->mm->mmap_sem in read mode. So fix its usage in hva_to_pfn of
kvm accordingly.
Comment is_hwpoison_address to remind other users.
Reported-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 378b0f6..6b44e52 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1298,6 +1298,9 @@
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * The caller must hold current->mm->mmap_sem in read mode.
+ */
int is_hwpoison_address(unsigned long addr)
{
pgd_t *pgdp;