This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: x86: Fix emulation in writing cr8 to the 5.15-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-fix-emulation-in-writing-cr8.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0e19cb2ec36d62e7272cdde6c1461540dfe728ee Author: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 10 17:45:06 2022 +0800 KVM: x86: Fix emulation in writing cr8 [ Upstream commit f66af9f222f08d5b11ea41c1bd6c07a0f12daa07 ] In emulation of writing to cr8, one of the lowest four bits in TPR[3:0] is kept. According to Intel SDM 10.8.6.1(baremetal scenario): "APIC.TPR[bits 7:4] = CR8[bits 3:0], APIC.TPR[bits 3:0] = 0"; and SDM 28.3(use TPR shadow): "MOV to CR8. The instruction stores bits 3:0 of its source operand into bits 7:4 of VTPR; the remainder of VTPR (bits 3:0 and bits 31:8) are cleared."; and AMD's APM 16.6.4: "Task Priority Sub-class (TPS)-Bits 3 : 0. The TPS field indicates the current sub-priority to be used when arbitrating lowest-priority messages. This field is written with zero when TPR is written using the architectural CR8 register."; so in KVM emulated scenario, clear TPR[3:0] to make a consistent behavior as in other scenarios. This doesn't impact evaluation and delivery of pending virtual interrupts because processor does not use the processor-priority sub-class to determine which interrupts to delivery and which to inhibit. Sub-class is used by hardware to arbitrate lowest priority interrupts, but KVM just does a round-robin style delivery. Fixes: b93463aa59d6 ("KVM: Accelerated apic support") Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-Id: <20220210094506.20181-1-zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c index 91c2dc9f198d..d790337613aa 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c @@ -2242,10 +2242,7 @@ void kvm_set_lapic_tscdeadline_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 data) void kvm_lapic_set_tpr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr8) { - struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic; - - apic_set_tpr(apic, ((cr8 & 0x0f) << 4) - | (kvm_lapic_get_reg(apic, APIC_TASKPRI) & 4)); + apic_set_tpr(vcpu->arch.apic, (cr8 & 0x0f) << 4); } u64 kvm_lapic_get_cr8(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)