This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: x86: mask CPUID(0xD,0x1).EAX against host value to the 4.5-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-mask-cpuid-0xd-0x1-.eax-against-host-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 316314cae15fb0e3869b76b468f59a0c83ac3d4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:33:00 +0100 Subject: KVM: x86: mask CPUID(0xD,0x1).EAX against host value MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 316314cae15fb0e3869b76b468f59a0c83ac3d4e upstream. This ensures that the guest doesn't see XSAVE extensions (e.g. xgetbv1 or xsavec) that the host lacks. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> [4.5 does have CPUID_D_1_EAX, but earlier kernels don't, so use the numeric value. This is consistent with other occurrences of cpuid_mask in arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c @@ -509,6 +509,7 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct do_cpuid_1_ent(&entry[i], function, idx); if (idx == 1) { entry[i].eax &= kvm_supported_word10_x86_features; + cpuid_mask(&entry[i].eax, 10); entry[i].ebx = 0; if (entry[i].eax & (F(XSAVES)|F(XSAVEC))) entry[i].ebx = Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/kvm-mtrr-remove-msr-0x2f8.patch queue-4.5/kvm-x86-mask-cpuid-0xd-0x1-.eax-against-host-value.patch queue-4.5/mips-kvm-fix-timer-irq-race-when-writing-cp0_compare.patch queue-4.5/mips-kvm-fix-timer-irq-race-when-freezing-timer.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