This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kvm: x86: mask out XSAVES 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-mask-out-xsaves.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 b65d6e17fe2239c9b2051727903955d922083fbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:13:26 +0100 Subject: kvm: x86: mask out XSAVES From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b65d6e17fe2239c9b2051727903955d922083fbf upstream. This feature is not supported inside KVM guests yet, because we do not emulate MSR_IA32_XSS. Mask it out. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c @@ -319,6 +319,10 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct F(BMI2) | F(ERMS) | f_invpcid | F(RTM) | f_mpx | F(RDSEED) | F(ADX) | F(SMAP); + /* cpuid 0xD.1.eax */ + const u32 kvm_supported_word10_x86_features = + F(XSAVEOPT) | F(XSAVEC) | F(XGETBV1); + /* all calls to cpuid_count() should be made on the same cpu */ get_cpu(); @@ -455,13 +459,18 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct entry->eax &= supported; entry->edx &= supported >> 32; entry->flags |= KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX; + if (!supported) + break; + for (idx = 1, i = 1; idx < 64; ++idx) { u64 mask = ((u64)1 << idx); if (*nent >= maxnent) goto out; do_cpuid_1_ent(&entry[i], function, idx); - if (entry[i].eax == 0 || !(supported & mask)) + if (idx == 1) + entry[i].eax &= kvm_supported_word10_x86_features; + else if (entry[i].eax == 0 || !(supported & mask)) continue; entry[i].flags |= KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/kvm-x86-em_ret_far-overrides-cpl.patch queue-3.18/x86-export-get_xsave_addr.patch queue-3.18/kvm-x86-support-xsaves-usage-in-the-host.patch queue-3.18/kvm-x86-mask-out-xsaves.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html