RE: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: Disable SMAP for guests in EPT realmode and EPT unpaging mode

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jan Kiszka
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 12:15 AM
> To: Wu, Feng; pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx; gleb@xxxxxxxxxx; hpa@xxxxxxxxx;
> kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: Disable SMAP for guests in EPT realmode and
> EPT unpaging mode
> 
> On 2014-03-27 13:25, Feng Wu wrote:
> > SMAP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in hardware.
> > However KVM always uses paging mode to emulate guest non-paging
> > mode with TDP. To emulate this behavior, SMAP needs to be
> > manually disabled when guest switches to non-paging mode.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Feng Wu <feng.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 10 ++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> > index dcc4de3..1d37e50 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> > @@ -3421,13 +3421,15 @@ static int vmx_set_cr4(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> unsigned long cr4)
> >  			hw_cr4 &= ~X86_CR4_PAE;
> >  			hw_cr4 |= X86_CR4_PSE;
> >  			/*
> > -			 * SMEP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in
> > -			 * hardware. However KVM always uses paging mode to
> > +			 * SMEP/SMAP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode
> > +			 * in hardware. However KVM always uses paging mode to
> >  			 * emulate guest non-paging mode with TDP.
> > -			 * To emulate this behavior, SMEP needs to be manually
> > -			 * disabled when guest switches to non-paging mode.
> > +			 * To emulate this behavior, SMEP/SMAP needs to be
> > +			 * manually disabled when guest switches to non-paging
> > +			 * mode.
> >  			 */
> >  			hw_cr4 &= ~X86_CR4_SMEP;
> > +			hw_cr4 &= ~X86_CR4_SMAP;
> 
> Why not
> 
> hw_cr4 &= ~(X86_CR4_SMEP | X86_CR4_SMAP);
> 
> ?

Sure, your suggestion is cleaner, I will change it in the next version, thanks for the comments!

> 
> Jan
> 
> >  		} else if (!(cr4 & X86_CR4_PAE)) {
> >  			hw_cr4 &= ~X86_CR4_PAE;
> >  		}
> >
> 

Thanks,
Feng
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