From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug report] KVM: x86: avoid incorrect writes to host MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:12:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200127181255.GA2523@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200127060305.jlq5uv6tu67tsbv4@kili.mountain>
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 09:04:22AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Paolo Bonzini,
>
> The patch e71ae535bc24: "KVM: x86: avoid incorrect writes to host
> MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL" from Jan 20, 2020, leads to the following static
> checker warning:
>
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:2001 vmx_set_msr()
> warn: maybe use && instead of &
>
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> 1994 vmx->msr_ia32_umwait_control = data;
> 1995 break;
> 1996 case MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL:
> 1997 if (!msr_info->host_initiated &&
> 1998 !guest_cpuid_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL))
> 1999 return 1;
> 2000
> 2001 if (data & ~kvm_spec_ctrl_valid_bits(vcpu))
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This seems wrong. kvm_spec_ctrl_valid_bits() returns a bool so this
> is either 0xffffffff or 0xfffffffe. data is a u64.
>
> 2002 return 1;
> 2003
> 2004 vmx->spec_ctrl = data;
> 2005 if (!data)
> 2006 break;
> 2007
> 2008 /*
> 2009 * For non-nested:
Paolo already had to put on the cone of shame for this one :-)
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6b725990-f0c2-6577-be7e-44e101e540b5@redhat.com
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2020-01-27 6:04 [bug report] KVM: x86: avoid incorrect writes to host MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Dan Carpenter
2020-01-27 6:08 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-01-27 18:12 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
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