Re: stable/4.14.y: kvm: vmx: Basic APIC virtualization controls have three settings

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 05:24:44PM +0000, Jitindar SIngh, Suraj wrote:
> The following patch fixes a bug where the guest is still able to access
> the apic registers via mmio once the apic has been disabled.
> 
> 8d860bbeedef kvm: vmx: Basic APIC virtualization controls have three
> settings
> 
> This causes the x86/apic kvm-unit-test to fail when run on a host
> missing this patch.
> 
> Without:
> FAIL: apic_disable: *0xfee00030: 50014
> FAIL: apic_disable: CR8: f
> PASS: apic_disable: CR8: f
> FAIL: apic_disable: *0xfee00080: f0
> With:
> PASS: apic_disable: *0xfee00030: ffffffff
> PASS: apic_disable: CR8: 0
> PASS: apic_disable: CR8: f
> PASS: apic_disable: *0xfee00080: ffffffff
> 
> This patch has been upstream as of v4.18.
> 
> This patch has 3 dependencies which introduce no functional
> change, however they add context which allows the patch listed above to
> apply cleanly.
> 
> c2ba05ccfde2 KVM: X86: introduce invalidate_gpa argument to tlb flush
> 588716494258 kvm: vmx: Introduce lapic_mode enumeration
> a468f2dbf921 kvm: apic: Flush TLB after APIC mode/address change if
> VPIDs are in use
> 
> This patch series should be applied against 4.14.y

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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