This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KVM: nVMX: Unconditionally uninit the MMU on nested vmexit
to the 3.12-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-unconditionally-uninit-the-mmu-on-nested-vmexit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 29bf08f12b2fd72b882da0d85b7385e4a438a297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:31:52 +0100
Subject: KVM: nVMX: Unconditionally uninit the MMU on nested vmexit
From: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>
commit 29bf08f12b2fd72b882da0d85b7385e4a438a297 upstream.
Three reasons for doing this: 1. arch.walk_mmu points to arch.mmu anyway
in case nested EPT wasn't in use. 2. this aligns VMX with SVM. But 3. is
most important: nested_cpu_has_ept(vmcs12) queries the VMCS page, and if
one guest VCPU manipulates the page of another VCPU in L2, we may be
fooled to skip over the nested_ept_uninit_mmu_context, leaving mmu in
nested state. That can crash the host later on if nested_ept_get_cr3 is
invoked while L1 already left vmxon and nested.current_vmcs12 became
NULL therefore.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -8218,8 +8218,7 @@ static void load_vmcs12_host_state(struc
vcpu->arch.cr4_guest_owned_bits = ~vmcs_readl(CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK);
kvm_set_cr4(vcpu, vmcs12->host_cr4);
- if (nested_cpu_has_ept(vmcs12))
- nested_ept_uninit_mmu_context(vcpu);
+ nested_ept_uninit_mmu_context(vcpu);
kvm_set_cr3(vcpu, vmcs12->host_cr3);
kvm_mmu_reset_context(vcpu);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.12/kvm-nvmx-unconditionally-uninit-the-mmu-on-nested-vmexit.patch
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