The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From a3ca5281bb771d8103ea16f0a6a8a5df9a7fb4f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:10:22 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: Reset mmu->pkru_mask to avoid stale data
When updating mmu->pkru_mask, the value can only be added but it isn't
reset in advance. This will make mmu->pkru_mask keep the stale data.
Fix this issue.
Fixes: 2d344105f57c ("KVM, pkeys: introduce pkru_mask to cache conditions")
Signed-off-by: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20211021071022.1140-1-chenyi.qiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 1a64ba5b9437..0cc58901bf7a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -4596,10 +4596,10 @@ static void update_pkru_bitmask(struct kvm_mmu *mmu)
unsigned bit;
bool wp;
- if (!is_cr4_pke(mmu)) {
- mmu->pkru_mask = 0;
+ mmu->pkru_mask = 0;
+
+ if (!is_cr4_pke(mmu))
return;
- }
wp = is_cr0_wp(mmu);
