On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:24 AM, George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 30/01/17 17:07, Tamas K Lengyel wrote:
>> Hi George,
>> yeap, this solves old mem_access settings being triggered when I
>> recreate altp2m views. Thanks!
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:17 AM, George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Commit 71bb7304e7a7a35ea6df4b0cedebc35028e4c159 added flushing of
>>> nested p2m tables whenever the host p2m table changed.  Unfortunately
>>> in the process, it added a filter to the generic p2m_flush_table()
>>> function so that the p2m would only be flushed if it was being used as
>>> a nested p2m.  This meant that the p2m was not being flushed at all
>>> for altp2m callers.
>>>
>>> Instead do the nested p2m filtering in p2m_flush_nestedp2m().
>>>
>>> NB that this is not a security issue: The only time this codepath is
>>> called is in cases where either nestedp2m or altp2m is enabled, and
>>> neither of them are in security support.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Matt Leinhos <m...@starlab.io>
>>> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com>
>>> ---
>>> I've smoke-tested this with nested virt and it seems to work fine.
>>> Matt / Tamas, could you test this with altp2m and see if it fixes your
>>> issue?
>>
>> Tested-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.leng...@zentific.com>
>
> Any chance you could add a Reviewed-by to this?  Can't check it in
> without an R-b from a non-maintainer or an Acked-by from an x86
> maintainer. :-)
>

In light of the discussion with Jan I would feel better if a R-b came
from him or Tim. I'm not that familiar with the nested code base..

Tamas

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