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KVM: MMU: Clean up gpte reading with copy_from_user()

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When we optimized walk_addr_generic() by not using the generic guest
memory reader, we replaced copy_from_user() with get_user():

  commit e30d2a170506830d5eef5e9d7990c5aedf1b0a51
  KVM: MMU: Optimize guest page table walk

  commit 15e2ac9a43d4d7d08088e404fddf2533a8e7d52e
  KVM: MMU: Fix 64-bit paging breakage on x86_32

But as Andi pointed out later, copy_from_user() does the same as
get_user() as long as we give a constant size to it.

So we use copy_from_user() to clean up the code.

The only, noticeable, regression introduced by this is 64-bit gpte
reading on x86_32 hosts needed for PAE guests.

But this can be mitigated by implementing 8-byte get_user() for x86_32,
if needed.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Takuya Yoshikawa 2011-05-07 16:31:36 +09:00 • committed by Avi Kivity
parent 5ce941ee42
commit 12cb814f3b
1 changed files with 1 additions and 15 deletions
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arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
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@ -115,20 +115,6 @@ static unsigned FNAME(gpte_access)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, pt_element_t gpte)
return access;
}
static int FNAME(read_gpte)(pt_element_t *pte, pt_element_t __user *ptep_user)
{
#if defined(CONFIG_X86_32) && (PTTYPE == 64)
u32 *p = (u32 *)pte;
u32 __user *p_user = (u32 __user *)ptep_user;
if (unlikely(get_user(*p, p_user)))
return -EFAULT;
return get_user(*(p + 1), p_user + 1);
#else
return get_user(*pte, ptep_user);
#endif
}
/*
* Fetch a guest pte for a guest virtual address
*/
@ -199,7 +185,7 @@ walk:
}
ptep_user = (pt_element_t __user *)((void *)host_addr + offset);
if (unlikely(FNAME(read_gpte)(&pte, ptep_user))) {
if (unlikely(copy_from_user(&pte, ptep_user, sizeof(pte)))) {
present = false;
break;
}