This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KVM: x86: Don't re-execute instruction when not passing CR2 value
to the 3.18-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-don-t-re-execute-instruction-when-not-passing-cr2-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Feb 1 14:48:12 CET 2018
From: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 16:56:34 +0200
Subject: KVM: x86: Don't re-execute instruction when not passing CR2 value
From: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 9b8ae63798cb97e785a667ff27e43fa6220cb734 ]
In case of instruction-decode failure or emulation failure,
x86_emulate_instruction() will call reexecute_instruction() which will
attempt to use the cr2 value passed to x86_emulate_instruction().
However, when x86_emulate_instruction() is called from
emulate_instruction(), cr2 is not passed (passed as 0) and therefore
it doesn't make sense to execute reexecute_instruction() logic at all.
Fixes: 51d8b66199e9 ("KVM: cleanup emulate_instruction")
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko <nikita.leshchenko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -849,7 +849,8 @@ int x86_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_v
static inline int emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
int emulation_type)
{
- return x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0, emulation_type, NULL, 0);
+ return x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0,
+ emulation_type | EMULTYPE_NO_REEXECUTE, NULL, 0);
}
void kvm_enable_efer_bits(u64);
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -5707,7 +5707,7 @@ static int handle_invalid_guest_state(st
if (test_bit(KVM_REQ_EVENT, &vcpu->requests))
return 1;
- err = emulate_instruction(vcpu, EMULTYPE_NO_REEXECUTE);
+ err = emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0);
if (err == EMULATE_USER_EXIT) {
++vcpu->stat.mmio_exits;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/kvm-x86-don-t-re-execute-instruction-when-not-passing-cr2-value.patch
queue-3.18/kvm-x86-emulator-return-to-user-mode-on-l1-cpl-0-emulation-failure.patch