This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kvm: x86: Guest BNDCFGS requires guest MPX support to the 4.12-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-guest-bndcfgs-requires-guest-mpx-support.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4439af9f911ae0243ffe4e2dfc12bace49605d8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:49:25 -0700 Subject: kvm: x86: Guest BNDCFGS requires guest MPX support MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 4439af9f911ae0243ffe4e2dfc12bace49605d8b upstream. The BNDCFGS MSR should only be exposed to the guest if the guest supports MPX. (cf. the TSC_AUX MSR and RDTSCP.) Fixes: 0dd376e709975779 ("KVM: x86: add MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS to msrs_to_save") Change-Id: I3ad7c01bda616715137ceac878f3fa7e66b6b387 Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h | 8 ++++++++ arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h @@ -144,6 +144,14 @@ static inline bool guest_cpuid_has_rtm(s return best && (best->ebx & bit(X86_FEATURE_RTM)); } +static inline bool guest_cpuid_has_mpx(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) +{ + struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *best; + + best = kvm_find_cpuid_entry(vcpu, 7, 0); + return best && (best->ebx & bit(X86_FEATURE_MPX)); +} + static inline bool guest_cpuid_has_rdtscp(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *best; --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -3195,7 +3195,7 @@ static int vmx_get_msr(struct kvm_vcpu * msr_info->data = vmcs_readl(GUEST_SYSENTER_ESP); break; case MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS: - if (!kvm_mpx_supported()) + if (!kvm_mpx_supported() || !guest_cpuid_has_mpx(vcpu)) return 1; msr_info->data = vmcs_read64(GUEST_BNDCFGS); break; @@ -3277,7 +3277,7 @@ static int vmx_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu * vmcs_writel(GUEST_SYSENTER_ESP, data); break; case MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS: - if (!kvm_mpx_supported()) + if (!kvm_mpx_supported() || !guest_cpuid_has_mpx(vcpu)) return 1; vmcs_write64(GUEST_BNDCFGS, data); break; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/kvm-x86-guest-bndcfgs-requires-guest-mpx-support.patch queue-4.12/kvm-vmx-check-value-written-to-ia32_bndcfgs.patch queue-4.12/kvm-vmx-do-not-disable-intercepts-for-bndcfgs.patch