This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: X86: Fix load RFLAGS w/o the fixed bit 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-load-rflags-w-o-the-fixed-bit.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 d73235d17ba63b53dc0e1051dbc10a1f1be91b71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 00:30:08 -0800 Subject: KVM: X86: Fix load RFLAGS w/o the fixed bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit d73235d17ba63b53dc0e1051dbc10a1f1be91b71 upstream. *** Guest State *** CR0: actual=0x0000000000000030, shadow=0x0000000060000010, gh_mask=fffffffffffffff7 CR4: actual=0x0000000000002050, shadow=0x0000000000000000, gh_mask=ffffffffffffe871 CR3 = 0x00000000fffbc000 RSP = 0x0000000000000000 RIP = 0x0000000000000000 RFLAGS=0x00000000 DR7 = 0x0000000000000400 ^^^^^^^^^^ The failed vmentry is triggered by the following testcase when ept=Y: #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <linux/kvm.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> long r[5]; int main() { r[2] = open("/dev/kvm", O_RDONLY); r[3] = ioctl(r[2], KVM_CREATE_VM, 0); r[4] = ioctl(r[3], KVM_CREATE_VCPU, 7); struct kvm_regs regs = { .rflags = 0, }; ioctl(r[4], KVM_SET_REGS, ®s); ioctl(r[4], KVM_RUN, 0); } X86 RFLAGS bit 1 is fixed set, userspace can simply clearing bit 1 of RFLAGS with KVM_SET_REGS ioctl which results in vmentry fails. This patch fixes it by oring X86_EFLAGS_FIXED during ioctl. Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Quan Xu <quan.xu0@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -6941,7 +6941,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_regs(struct #endif kvm_rip_write(vcpu, regs->rip); - kvm_set_rflags(vcpu, regs->rflags); + kvm_set_rflags(vcpu, regs->rflags | X86_EFLAGS_FIXED); vcpu->arch.exception.pending = false; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/kvm-x86-fix-load-rflags-w-o-the-fixed-bit.patch