On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <maciej.szmigiero@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit cae7ed3c2cb0 ("KVM: x86: Refactor the MMIO SPTE generation handling")
> cleaned up the computation of MMIO generation SPTE masks, however it
> introduced a bug how the upper part was encoded:
> SPTE bits 52-61 were supposed to contain bits 10-19 of the current
> generation number, however a missing shift encoded bits 1-10 there instead
> (mostly duplicating the lower part of the encoded generation number that
> then consisted of bits 1-9).
>
> In the meantime, the upper part was shrunk by one bit and moved by
> subsequent commits to become an upper half of the encoded generation number
> (bits 9-17 of bits 0-17 encoded in a SPTE).
>
> In addition to the above, commit 56871d444bc4 ("KVM: x86: fix overlap between SPTE_MMIO_MASK and generation")
> has changed the SPTE bit range assigned to encode the generation number and
> the total number of bits encoded but did not update them in the comment
> attached to their defines, nor in the KVM MMU doc.
> Let's do it here, too, since it is too trivial thing to warrant a separate
> commit.
>
> Fixes: cae7ed3c2cb0 ("KVM: x86: Refactor the MMIO SPTE generation handling")
> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Message-Id: <156700708db2a5296c5ed7a8b9ac71f1e9765c85.1607129096.git.maciej.szmigiero@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
I assume you want stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?
> [Reorganize macros so that everything is computed from the bit ranges. - Paolo]
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Compared to v2 by Maciej, I chose to keep GEN_MASK's argument calculated,
Booooo. :-D
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> but assert on the number of bits in the low and high parts. This is
> because any change on those numbers will have to be reflected in the
> comment, and essentially we're asserting that the comment is up-to-date.
