This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KVM: VMX: Preserve host CR4.MCE value while in guest mode.
to the 4.0-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-vmx-preserve-host-cr4.mce-value-while-in-guest-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 085e68eeafbf76e21848ad5bafaecec88a11dd64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Serebrin <serebrin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:58:05 -0700
Subject: KVM: VMX: Preserve host CR4.MCE value while in guest mode.
From: Ben Serebrin <serebrin@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 085e68eeafbf76e21848ad5bafaecec88a11dd64 upstream.
The host's decision to enable machine check exceptions should remain
in force during non-root mode. KVM was writing 0 to cr4 on VCPU reset
and passed a slightly-modified 0 to the vmcs.guest_cr4 value.
Tested: Built.
On earlier version, tested by injecting machine check
while a guest is spinning.
Before the change, if guest CR4.MCE==0, then the machine check is
escalated to Catastrophic Error (CATERR) and the machine dies.
If guest CR4.MCE==1, then the machine check causes VMEXIT and is
handled normally by host Linux. After the change, injecting a machine
check causes normal Linux machine check handling.
Signed-off-by: Ben Serebrin <serebrin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -3621,8 +3621,16 @@ static void vmx_set_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu
static int vmx_set_cr4(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr4)
{
- unsigned long hw_cr4 = cr4 | (to_vmx(vcpu)->rmode.vm86_active ?
- KVM_RMODE_VM_CR4_ALWAYS_ON : KVM_PMODE_VM_CR4_ALWAYS_ON);
+ /*
+ * Pass through host's Machine Check Enable value to hw_cr4, which
+ * is in force while we are in guest mode. Do not let guests control
+ * this bit, even if host CR4.MCE == 0.
+ */
+ unsigned long hw_cr4 =
+ (cr4_read_shadow() & X86_CR4_MCE) |
+ (cr4 & ~X86_CR4_MCE) |
+ (to_vmx(vcpu)->rmode.vm86_active ?
+ KVM_RMODE_VM_CR4_ALWAYS_ON : KVM_PMODE_VM_CR4_ALWAYS_ON);
if (cr4 & X86_CR4_VMXE) {
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from serebrin@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.0/kvm-vmx-preserve-host-cr4.mce-value-while-in-guest-mode.patch
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