This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: nVMX: Disable unrestricted mode if ept=0 to the 3.14-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-nvmx-disable-unrestricted-mode-if-ept-0.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 78051e3b7e35722ad3f31dd611f1b34770bddab8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bandan Das <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 20:32:16 +0530 Subject: KVM: nVMX: Disable unrestricted mode if ept=0 From: Bandan Das <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 78051e3b7e35722ad3f31dd611f1b34770bddab8 upstream. If L0 has disabled EPT, don't advertise unrestricted mode at all since it depends on EPT to run real mode code. Fixes: 92fbc7b195b824e201d9f06f2b93105f72384d65 Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bandan Das <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -2320,12 +2320,12 @@ static __init void nested_vmx_setup_ctls nested_vmx_secondary_ctls_low = 0; nested_vmx_secondary_ctls_high &= SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES | - SECONDARY_EXEC_UNRESTRICTED_GUEST | SECONDARY_EXEC_WBINVD_EXITING; if (enable_ept) { /* nested EPT: emulate EPT also to L1 */ - nested_vmx_secondary_ctls_high |= SECONDARY_EXEC_ENABLE_EPT; + nested_vmx_secondary_ctls_high |= SECONDARY_EXEC_ENABLE_EPT | + SECONDARY_EXEC_UNRESTRICTED_GUEST; nested_vmx_ept_caps = VMX_EPT_PAGE_WALK_4_BIT | VMX_EPTP_WB_BIT | VMX_EPT_2MB_PAGE_BIT | VMX_EPT_INVEPT_BIT; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bsd@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/kvm-nvmx-disable-unrestricted-mode-if-ept-0.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