KVM: MMU: drop read-only large sptes when creating lower level sptes

Read-only large sptes can be created due to read-only faults as
follows:

- QEMU pagetable entry that maps guest memory is read-only
due to COW.
- Guest read faults such memory, COW is not broken, because
it is a read-only fault.
- Enable dirty logging, large spte not nuked because it is read-only.
- Write-fault on such memory causes guest to loop endlessly
(which must go down to level 1 because dirty logging is enabled).

Fix by dropping large spte when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index e50425d0f5f7..9b531351a587 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2672,6 +2672,7 @@ static int __direct_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t v, int write,
 			break;
 		}
 
+		drop_large_spte(vcpu, iterator.sptep);
 		if (!is_shadow_present_pte(*iterator.sptep)) {
 			u64 base_addr = iterator.addr;