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Commit 2bcb52a3 authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: Pin (as in FOLL_PIN) pages during kvm_vcpu_map()

Pin, as in FOLL_PIN, pages when mapping them for direct access by KVM.
As per Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst, writing to a page that
was gotten via FOLL_GET is explicitly disallowed.

  Correct (uses FOLL_PIN calls):
      pin_user_pages()
      write to the data within the pages
      unpin_user_pages()

  INCORRECT (uses FOLL_GET calls):
      get_user_pages()
      write to the data within the pages
      put_page()

Unfortunately, FOLL_PIN is a "private" flag, and so kvm_follow_pfn must
use a one-off bool instead of being able to piggyback the "flags" field.

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/930667
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1683044162.git.lstoakes@gmail.com


Tested-by: default avatarAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20241010182427.1434605-32-seanjc@google.com>
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