This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kvm: x86: Fix vmwrite to SECONDARY_VM_EXEC_CONTROL to the 4.4-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-vmwrite-to-secondary_vm_exec_control.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 45bdbcfdf241149642fb6c25ab0c209d59c371b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Huaitong Han <huaitong.han@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:04:20 +0800 Subject: kvm: x86: Fix vmwrite to SECONDARY_VM_EXEC_CONTROL From: Huaitong Han <huaitong.han@xxxxxxxxx> commit 45bdbcfdf241149642fb6c25ab0c209d59c371b7 upstream. vmx_cpuid_tries to update SECONDARY_VM_EXEC_CONTROL in the VMCS, but it will cause a vmwrite error on older CPUs because the code does not check for the presence of CPU_BASED_ACTIVATE_SECONDARY_CONTROLS. This will get rid of the following trace on e.g. Core2 6600: vmwrite error: reg 401e value 10 (err 12) Call Trace: [<ffffffff8116e2b9>] dump_stack+0x40/0x57 [<ffffffffa020b88d>] vmx_cpuid_update+0x5d/0x150 [kvm_intel] [<ffffffffa01d8fdc>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_cpuid2+0x4c/0x70 [kvm] [<ffffffffa01b8363>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x903/0xfa0 [kvm] Fixes: feda805fe7c4ed9cf78158e73b1218752e3b4314 Reported-by: Zdenek Kaspar <zkaspar82@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Huaitong Han <huaitong.han@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -8932,7 +8932,8 @@ static void vmx_cpuid_update(struct kvm_ best->ebx &= ~bit(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID); } - vmcs_set_secondary_exec_control(secondary_exec_ctl); + if (cpu_has_secondary_exec_ctrls()) + vmcs_set_secondary_exec_control(secondary_exec_ctl); if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCOMMIT) && nested) { if (guest_cpuid_has_pcommit(vcpu)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from huaitong.han@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/kvm-x86-fix-vmwrite-to-secondary_vm_exec_control.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html