Re: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: MMU: Optimize pte permission checks

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On 09/12/2012 10:29 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:

> +		pte_access = pt_access & gpte_access(vcpu, pte);
> +		eperm |= (mmu->permissions[access >> 1] >> pte_access) & 1;
> 
>  		last_gpte = FNAME(is_last_gpte)(walker, vcpu, mmu, pte);
> -		if (last_gpte) {
> -			pte_access = pt_access & gpte_access(vcpu, pte);
> -			/* check if the kernel is fetching from user page */
> -			if (unlikely(pte_access & PT_USER_MASK) &&
> -			    kvm_read_cr4_bits(vcpu, X86_CR4_SMEP))
> -				if (fetch_fault && !user_fault)
> -					eperm = true;
> -		}

I see this in the SDM:

If CR4.SMEP = 1, instructions may be fetched from any linear
address with a valid translation for which the U/S flag (bit 2) is 0 in at
least one of the paging-structure entries controlling the translation.

This patch checks smep on every levels, breaks this rule.
(current code checks smep on the last level).

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