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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Fix MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS in msrs_to_save
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:08:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <552B9596.10608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428864435-4732-1-git-send-email-namit@cs.technion.ac.il>



On 12/04/2015 20:47, Nadav Amit wrote:
> kvm_init_msr_list is currently called before hardware_setup. As a result,
> vmx_mpx_supported always returns false when kvm_init_msr_list checks whether to
> save MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS.
> 
> Move kvm_init_msr_list after vmx_hardware_setup is called to fix this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
> 
> ---
> 
> Note that this patch was not tested on a system that supports MPX.
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index b8cb1d0..b7e3b05 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -5800,7 +5800,6 @@ int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque)
>  	kvm_set_mmio_spte_mask();
>  
>  	kvm_x86_ops = ops;
> -	kvm_init_msr_list();
>  
>  	kvm_mmu_set_mask_ptes(PT_USER_MASK, PT_ACCESSED_MASK,
>  			PT_DIRTY_MASK, PT64_NX_MASK, 0);
> @@ -7254,7 +7253,14 @@ void kvm_arch_hardware_disable(void)
>  
>  int kvm_arch_hardware_setup(void)
>  {
> -	return kvm_x86_ops->hardware_setup();
> +	int r;
> +
> +	r = kvm_x86_ops->hardware_setup();
> +	if (r != 0)
> +		return r;
> +
> +	kvm_init_msr_list();
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  void kvm_arch_hardware_unsetup(void)
> 

Applied (locally) for 4.1 with Cc stable.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-13 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-12 18:47 [PATCH] KVM: x86: Fix MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS in msrs_to_save Nadav Amit
2015-04-13 10:08 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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