From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59260 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752748AbeBANSu (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2018 08:18:50 -0500 Subject: Patch "KVM: x86: Don't re-execute instruction when not passing CR2 value" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: liran.alon@oracle.com, alexander.levin@microsoft.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, nikita.leshchenko@oracle.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com, wanpeng.li@hotmail.com Cc: , From: Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:16:00 +0100 Message-ID: <151749096042212@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: x86: Don't re-execute instruction when not passing CR2 value 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-x86-don-t-re-execute-instruction-when-not-passing-cr2-value.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 know about it. >>From foo@baz Thu Feb 1 13:58:04 CET 2018 From: Liran Alon Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 16:56:34 +0200 Subject: KVM: x86: Don't re-execute instruction when not passing CR2 value From: Liran Alon [ Upstream commit 9b8ae63798cb97e785a667ff27e43fa6220cb734 ] In case of instruction-decode failure or emulation failure, x86_emulate_instruction() will call reexecute_instruction() which will attempt to use the cr2 value passed to x86_emulate_instruction(). However, when x86_emulate_instruction() is called from emulate_instruction(), cr2 is not passed (passed as 0) and therefore it doesn't make sense to execute reexecute_instruction() logic at all. Fixes: 51d8b66199e9 ("KVM: cleanup emulate_instruction") Signed-off-by: Liran Alon Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 ++- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h @@ -1113,7 +1113,8 @@ int x86_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_v static inline int emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int emulation_type) { - return x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0, emulation_type, NULL, 0); + return x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0, + emulation_type | EMULTYPE_NO_REEXECUTE, NULL, 0); } void kvm_enable_efer_bits(u64); --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -6257,7 +6257,7 @@ static int handle_invalid_guest_state(st if (test_bit(KVM_REQ_EVENT, &vcpu->requests)) return 1; - err = emulate_instruction(vcpu, EMULTYPE_NO_REEXECUTE); + err = emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0); if (err == EMULATE_USER_EXIT) { ++vcpu->stat.mmio_exits; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from liran.alon@oracle.com are queue-4.9/kvm-x86-don-t-re-execute-instruction-when-not-passing-cr2-value.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-ioapic-preserve-read-only-values-in-the-redirection-table.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-ioapic-fix-level-triggered-eoi-and-ioapic-reconfigure-race.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-emulator-return-to-user-mode-on-l1-cpl-0-emulation-failure.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-ioapic-clear-remote-irr-when-entry-is-switched-to-edge-triggered.patch