Patch "KVM/nVMX: Set the CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS if we have a valid L02 MSR bitmap" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    KVM/nVMX: Set the CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS if we have a valid L02 MSR bitmap

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kvm-nvmx-set-the-cpu_based_use_msr_bitmaps-if-we-have-a-valid-l02-msr-bitmap.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 3712caeb14dcb33fb4d5114f14c0beef10aca101 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:39:26 +0000
Subject: KVM/nVMX: Set the CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS if we have a valid L02 MSR bitmap
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From: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>

commit 3712caeb14dcb33fb4d5114f14c0beef10aca101 upstream.

We either clear the CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS and end up intercepting all
MSR accesses or create a valid L02 MSR bitmap and use that. This decision
has to be made every time we evaluate whether we are going to generate the
L02 MSR bitmap.

Before commit:

  d28b387fb74d ("KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL")

... this was probably OK since the decision was always identical.

This is no longer the case now since the MSR bitmap might actually
change once we decide to not intercept SPEC_CTRL and PRED_CMD.

Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: jmattson@google.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sironi@amazon.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518305967-31356-6-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -10131,7 +10131,8 @@ static void nested_get_vmcs12_pages(stru
 	if (cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap() &&
 	    nested_cpu_has(vmcs12, CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS) &&
 	    nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap(vcpu, vmcs12))
-		;
+		vmcs_set_bits(CPU_BASED_VM_EXEC_CONTROL,
+			      CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS);
 	else
 		vmcs_clear_bits(CPU_BASED_VM_EXEC_CONTROL,
 				CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from karahmed@amazon.de are

queue-4.15/kvm-nvmx-set-the-cpu_based_use_msr_bitmaps-if-we-have-a-valid-l02-msr-bitmap.patch
queue-4.15/x86-nvmx-properly-set-spec_ctrl-and-pred_cmd-before-merging-msrs.patch
queue-4.15/x86-speculation-update-speculation-control-microcode-blacklist.patch
queue-4.15/kvm-x86-reduce-retpoline-performance-impact-in-slot_handle_level_range-by-always-inlining-iterator-helper-methods.patch
queue-4.15/revert-x86-speculation-simplify-indirect_branch_prediction_barrier.patch