[Qemu-devel] [RFC v1 01/23] target/riscv: Don't set write permissions on dirty PTEs

[Alistair Francis]

Setting write permission on dirty PTEs results in userspace inside a
Hypervisor guest (VU) becoming corrupted. This appears to be becuase it
ends up with write permission in the second stage translation in cases
where we aren't doing a store.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <address@hidden>
---
 target/riscv/cpu_helper.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target/riscv/cpu_helper.c b/target/riscv/cpu_helper.c
index b1bee3d45d..872835177a 100644
--- a/target/riscv/cpu_helper.c
+++ b/target/riscv/cpu_helper.c
@@ -326,10 +326,8 @@ restart:
             if ((pte & PTE_X)) {
                 *prot |= PAGE_EXEC;
             }
-            /* add write permission on stores or if the page is already dirty,
-               so that we TLB miss on later writes to update the dirty bit */
-            if ((pte & PTE_W) &&
-                    (access_type == MMU_DATA_STORE || (pte & PTE_D))) {
+            /* add write permission on stores */
+            if ((pte & PTE_W) && (access_type == MMU_DATA_STORE)) {
                 *prot |= PAGE_WRITE;
             }
             return TRANSLATE_SUCCESS;
-- 
2.21.0