Hi,

> On Sep 21, 2023, at 20:38, Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20.09.2023 21:21, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> Nicola reports that the XSA-438 fix introduced new MISRA violations because 
>> of
>> some incidental tidying it tried to do.  The parameter is useless, so resolve
>> the MISRA regression by removing it.
>> 
>> hap_update_cr3() discards the parameter entirely, while sh_update_cr3() uses
>> it to distinguish internal and external callers and therefore whether the
>> paging lock should be taken.
>> 
>> However, we have paging_lock_recursive() for this purpose, which also avoids
>> the ability for the shadow internal callers to accidentally not hold the 
>> lock.
>> 
>> Fixes: fb0ff49fe9f7 ("x86/shadow: defer releasing of PV's top-level shadow 
>> reference")
>> Reported-by: Nicola Vetrini <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> CC: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
>> CC: Roger Pau MonnĂ© <[email protected]>
>> CC: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
>> CC: George Dunlap <[email protected]>
>> CC: Tim Deegan <[email protected]>
>> CC: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
>> CC: Nicola Vetrini <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Slightly RFC.  Only compile tested so far.
> 
> With shadow/none.c also suitably edited
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>

Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <[email protected]>

Kind regards,
Henry

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