From: Jan Beulich Subject: x86: don't allow page_unlock() to drop the last type reference Only _put_page_type() does the necessary cleanup, and hence not all domain pages can be released during guest cleanup (leaving around zombie domains) if we get this wrong. This is XSA-242. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c @@ -1923,7 +1923,11 @@ void page_unlock(struct page_info *page) do { x = y; + ASSERT((x & PGT_count_mask) && (x & PGT_locked)); + nx = x - (1 | PGT_locked); + /* We must not drop the last reference here. */ + ASSERT(nx & PGT_count_mask); } while ( (y = cmpxchg(&page->u.inuse.type_info, x, nx)) != x ); } @@ -2611,6 +2615,17 @@ static int _put_page_type(struct page_in (page->count_info & PGC_page_table)) ) page_set_tlbflush_timestamp(page); } + else if ( unlikely((nx & (PGT_locked | PGT_count_mask)) == + (PGT_locked | 1)) ) + { + /* + * We must not drop the second to last reference when the page is + * locked, as page_unlock() doesn't do any cleanup of the type. + */ + cpu_relax(); + y = page->u.inuse.type_info; + continue; + } if ( likely((y = cmpxchg(&page->u.inuse.type_info, x, nx)) == x) ) break;