Revision 844a5fe219cf472060315971e15cbf97674a3324 authored by Paolo Bonzini on 08 March 2016, 11:13:39 UTC, committed by Paolo Bonzini on 10 March 2016, 10:26:07 UTC
Yes, all of these are needed. :) This is admittedly a bit odd, but
kvm-unit-tests access.flat tests this if you run it with "-cpu host"
and of course ept=0.

KVM runs the guest with CR0.WP=1, so it must handle supervisor writes
specially when pte.u=1/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0.  Such writes cause a fault
when U=1 and W=0 in the SPTE, but they must succeed because CR0.WP=0.
When KVM gets the fault, it sets U=0 and W=1 in the shadow PTE and
restarts execution.  This will still cause a user write to fault, while
supervisor writes will succeed.  User reads will fault spuriously now,
and KVM will then flip U and W again in the SPTE (U=1, W=0).  User reads
will be enabled and supervisor writes disabled, going back to the
originary situation where supervisor writes fault spuriously.

When SMEP is in effect, however, U=0 will enable kernel execution of
this page.  To avoid this, KVM also sets NX=1 in the shadow PTE together
with U=0.  If the guest has not enabled NX, the result is a continuous
stream of page faults due to the NX bit being reserved.

The fix is to force EFER.NX=1 even if the CPU is taking care of the EFER
switch.  (All machines with SMEP have the CPU_LOAD_IA32_EFER vm-entry
control, so they do not use user-return notifiers for EFER---if they did,
EFER.NX would be forced to the same value as the host).

There is another bug in the reserved bit check, which I've split to a
separate patch for easier application to stable kernels.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: f6577a5fa15d82217ca73c74cd2dcbc0f6c781dd
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Makefile -rw-r--r-- 2.7 KB
backing-dev.c -rw-r--r-- 26.4 KB
balloon_compaction.c -rw-r--r-- 6.6 KB
bootmem.c -rw-r--r-- 21.0 KB
cleancache.c -rw-r--r-- 9.9 KB
cma.c -rw-r--r-- 12.1 KB
cma.h -rw-r--r-- 515 bytes
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compaction.c -rw-r--r-- 48.3 KB
debug-pagealloc.c -rw-r--r-- 2.6 KB
debug.c -rw-r--r-- 6.6 KB
dmapool.c -rw-r--r-- 13.9 KB
early_ioremap.c -rw-r--r-- 6.2 KB
fadvise.c -rw-r--r-- 3.7 KB
failslab.c -rw-r--r-- 1.3 KB
filemap.c -rw-r--r-- 74.1 KB
frame_vector.c -rw-r--r-- 6.2 KB
frontswap.c -rw-r--r-- 14.3 KB
gup.c -rw-r--r-- 41.1 KB
highmem.c -rw-r--r-- 11.8 KB
huge_memory.c -rw-r--r-- 92.9 KB
hugetlb.c -rw-r--r-- 117.9 KB
hugetlb_cgroup.c -rw-r--r-- 10.5 KB
hwpoison-inject.c -rw-r--r-- 3.2 KB
init-mm.c -rw-r--r-- 619 bytes
internal.h -rw-r--r-- 14.4 KB
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page_owner.c -rw-r--r-- 7.1 KB
pagewalk.c -rw-r--r-- 7.5 KB
percpu-km.c -rw-r--r-- 2.8 KB
percpu-vm.c -rw-r--r-- 10.0 KB
percpu.c -rw-r--r-- 65.9 KB
pgtable-generic.c -rw-r--r-- 5.4 KB
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quicklist.c -rw-r--r-- 2.4 KB
readahead.c -rw-r--r-- 15.3 KB
rmap.c -rw-r--r-- 49.9 KB
shmem.c -rw-r--r-- 90.9 KB
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slab.h -rw-r--r-- 10.5 KB
slab_common.c -rw-r--r-- 30.0 KB
slob.c -rw-r--r-- 16.0 KB
slub.c -rw-r--r-- 133.0 KB
sparse-vmemmap.c -rw-r--r-- 7.8 KB
sparse.c -rw-r--r-- 20.9 KB
swap.c -rw-r--r-- 26.2 KB
swap_cgroup.c -rw-r--r-- 4.6 KB
swap_state.c -rw-r--r-- 13.1 KB
swapfile.c -rw-r--r-- 77.3 KB
truncate.c -rw-r--r-- 23.9 KB
userfaultfd.c -rw-r--r-- 7.2 KB
util.c -rw-r--r-- 11.4 KB
vmacache.c -rw-r--r-- 3.1 KB
vmalloc.c -rw-r--r-- 68.0 KB
vmpressure.c -rw-r--r-- 12.5 KB
vmscan.c -rw-r--r-- 112.0 KB
vmstat.c -rw-r--r-- 42.4 KB
workingset.c -rw-r--r-- 13.6 KB
zbud.c -rw-r--r-- 18.2 KB
zpool.c -rw-r--r-- 10.0 KB
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zswap.c -rw-r--r-- 32.0 KB

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