[PATCH 4.9 090/107] x86/KVM/VMX: Dont set l1tf_flush_l1d from vmx_handle_external_intr()

2018-08-14 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nicolai Stange 

commit 18b57ce2eb8c8b9a24174a89250cf5f57c76ecdc upstream

For VMEXITs caused by external interrupts, vmx_handle_external_intr()
indirectly calls into the interrupt handlers through the host's IDT.

It follows that these interrupts get accounted for in the
kvm_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d per-cpu flag.

The subsequently executed vmx_l1d_flush() will thus be aware that some
interrupts have happened and conduct a L1d flush anyway.

Setting l1tf_flush_l1d from vmx_handle_external_intr() isn't needed
anymore. Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -8929,7 +8929,6 @@ static void vmx_handle_external_intr(str
[ss]"i"(__KERNEL_DS),
[cs]"i"(__KERNEL_CS)
);
-   vcpu->arch.l1tf_flush_l1d = true;
}
 }
 STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(vmx_handle_external_intr);




[PATCH 4.9 090/107] x86/KVM/VMX: Dont set l1tf_flush_l1d from vmx_handle_external_intr()

2018-08-14 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

--

From: Nicolai Stange 

commit 18b57ce2eb8c8b9a24174a89250cf5f57c76ecdc upstream

For VMEXITs caused by external interrupts, vmx_handle_external_intr()
indirectly calls into the interrupt handlers through the host's IDT.

It follows that these interrupts get accounted for in the
kvm_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d per-cpu flag.

The subsequently executed vmx_l1d_flush() will thus be aware that some
interrupts have happened and conduct a L1d flush anyway.

Setting l1tf_flush_l1d from vmx_handle_external_intr() isn't needed
anymore. Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -8929,7 +8929,6 @@ static void vmx_handle_external_intr(str
[ss]"i"(__KERNEL_DS),
[cs]"i"(__KERNEL_CS)
);
-   vcpu->arch.l1tf_flush_l1d = true;
}
 }
 STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(vmx_handle_external_intr);