Patch "KVM: nVMX: fix guest CR4 loading when emulating L2 to L1 exit" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    KVM: nVMX: fix guest CR4 loading when emulating L2 to L1 exit

to the 4.9-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-fix-guest-cr4-loading-when-emulating-l2-to-l1-exit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 8eb3f87d903168bdbd1222776a6b1e281f50513e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:01:22 +0800
Subject: KVM: nVMX: fix guest CR4 loading when emulating L2 to L1 exit

From: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>

commit 8eb3f87d903168bdbd1222776a6b1e281f50513e upstream.

When KVM emulates an exit from L2 to L1, it loads L1 CR4 into the
guest CR4. Before this CR4 loading, the guest CR4 refers to L2
CR4. Because these two CR4's are in different levels of guest, we
should vmx_set_cr4() rather than kvm_set_cr4() here. The latter, which
is used to handle guest writes to its CR4, checks the guest change to
CR4 and may fail if the change is invalid.

The failure may cause trouble. Consider we start
  a L1 guest with non-zero L1 PCID in use,
     (i.e. L1 CR4.PCIDE == 1 && L1 CR3.PCID != 0)
and
  a L2 guest with L2 PCID disabled,
     (i.e. L2 CR4.PCIDE == 0)
and following events may happen:

1. If kvm_set_cr4() is used in load_vmcs12_host_state() to load L1 CR4
   into guest CR4 (in VMCS01) for L2 to L1 exit, it will fail because
   of PCID check. As a result, the guest CR4 recorded in L0 KVM (i.e.
   vcpu->arch.cr4) is left to the value of L2 CR4.

2. Later, if L1 attempts to change its CR4, e.g., clearing VMXE bit,
   kvm_set_cr4() in L0 KVM will think L1 also wants to enable PCID,
   because the wrong L2 CR4 is used by L0 KVM as L1 CR4. As L1
   CR3.PCID != 0, L0 KVM will inject GP to L1 guest.

Fixes: 4704d0befb072 ("KVM: nVMX: Exiting from L2 to L1")
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -10690,7 +10690,7 @@ static void load_vmcs12_host_state(struc
 	 * (KVM doesn't change it)- no reason to call set_cr4_guest_host_mask();
 	 */
 	vcpu->arch.cr4_guest_owned_bits = ~vmcs_readl(CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK);
-	kvm_set_cr4(vcpu, vmcs12->host_cr4);
+	vmx_set_cr4(vcpu, vmcs12->host_cr4);
 
 	nested_ept_uninit_mmu_context(vcpu);
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from haozhong.zhang@intel.com are

queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-fix-guest-cr4-loading-when-emulating-l2-to-l1-exit.patch