xen/page_alloc: Only flush the page to RAM once we know they are scrubbed
At the moment, each page are flushed to RAM just after the allocator
found some free pages. However, this is happening before check if the
page was scrubbed.
As a consequence, on Arm, a guest may be able to access the old content
of the scrubbed pages if it has cache disabled (default at boot) and
the content didn't reach the Point of Coherency.
The flush is now moved after we know the content of the page will not
change. This also has the benefit to reduce the amount of work happening
with the heap_lock held.
This is XSA-364.
Fixes: 307c3be3ccb2 ("mm: Don't scrub pages while holding heap lock in alloc_heap_pages()")
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit:
3b1cc15f1931ba56d0ee256fe9bfe65509733b27
master date: 2021-02-16 15:32:08 +0100