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Diffstat (limited to 'accel/tcg/user-exec.c')
-rw-r--r-- | accel/tcg/user-exec.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/accel/tcg/user-exec.c b/accel/tcg/user-exec.c index e8f26ff0cb..c973752562 100644 --- a/accel/tcg/user-exec.c +++ b/accel/tcg/user-exec.c @@ -104,7 +104,18 @@ static inline int handle_cpu_signal(uintptr_t pc, siginfo_t *info, pc, address, is_write, *(unsigned long *)old_set); #endif /* XXX: locking issue */ - if (is_write && h2g_valid(address)) { + /* Note that it is important that we don't call page_unprotect() unless + * this is really a "write to nonwriteable page" fault, because + * page_unprotect() assumes that if it is called for an access to + * a page that's writeable this means we had two threads racing and + * another thread got there first and already made the page writeable; + * so we will retry the access. If we were to call page_unprotect() + * for some other kind of fault that should really be passed to the + * guest, we'd end up in an infinite loop of retrying the faulting + * access. + */ + if (is_write && info->si_signo == SIGSEGV && info->si_code == SEGV_ACCERR && + h2g_valid(address)) { switch (page_unprotect(h2g(address), pc)) { case 0: /* Fault not caused by a page marked unwritable to protect |