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KVM: MMU: Fix another largepage memory leak
authorJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:05:07 +0000 (23:05 +0000)
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:55:19 +0000 (13:55 -0700)
upstream commit: c5bc22424021cabda862727fb3f5098b866f074d

In the paging_fetch function rmap_remove is called after setting a large
pte to non-present. This causes rmap_remove to not drop the reference to
the large page. The result is a memory leak of that page.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
[chrisw: backport to 2.6.29]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h

index 9fd78b6e17ad20fab48e6901c131de0658b6df5d..c95a67df5906d4b35105012d4f327f4fc41f9fbd 100644 (file)
@@ -314,9 +314,9 @@ static int FNAME(shadow_walk_entry)(struct kvm_shadow_walk *_sw,
                return 0;
 
        if (is_large_pte(*sptep)) {
+               rmap_remove(vcpu->kvm, sptep);
                set_shadow_pte(sptep, shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte);
                kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
-               rmap_remove(vcpu->kvm, sptep);
        }
 
        if (level == PT_DIRECTORY_LEVEL && gw->level == PT_DIRECTORY_LEVEL) {