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KVM: Restrict non-existing slot state transitions
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The API documentation states:

	When changing an existing slot, it may be moved in the guest
	physical memory space, or its flags may be modified.

An "existing slot" requires a non-zero npages (memory_size).  The only
transition we should therefore allow for a non-existing slot should be
to create the slot, which includes setting a non-zero memory_size.  We
currently allow calls to modify non-existing slots, which is pointless,
confusing, and possibly wrong.

With this we know that the invalidation path of __kvm_set_memory_region
is always for a delete or move and never for adding a zero size slot.

Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Alex Williamson authored and Marcelo Tosatti committed Dec 14, 2012
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
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Expand Up @@ -758,10 +758,15 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
new.npages = npages;
new.flags = mem->flags;

/* Disallow changing a memory slot's size. */
/*
* Disallow changing a memory slot's size or changing anything about
* zero sized slots that doesn't involve making them non-zero.
*/
r = -EINVAL;
if (npages && old.npages && npages != old.npages)
goto out_free;
if (!npages && !old.npages)
goto out_free;

/* Check for overlaps */
r = -EEXIST;
Expand All @@ -780,7 +785,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
r = -ENOMEM;

/* Allocate if a slot is being created */
if (npages && !old.npages) {
if (!old.npages) {
new.user_alloc = user_alloc;
new.userspace_addr = mem->userspace_addr;

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