Revision b2467e744f89fcb2e723143c2b78bcbaf391828a authored by Haozhong Zhang on 25 November 2015, 09:21:39 UTC, committed by Paolo Bonzini on 25 November 2015, 14:52:55 UTC
This patch removes the vpid check when emulating nested invvpid
instruction of type all-contexts invalidation. The existing code is
incorrect because:
 (1) According to Intel SDM Vol 3, Section "INVVPID - Invalidate
     Translations Based on VPID", invvpid instruction does not check
     vpid in the invvpid descriptor when its type is all-contexts
     invalidation.
 (2) According to the same document, invvpid of type all-contexts
     invalidation does not require there is an active VMCS, so/and
     get_vmcs12() in the existing code may result in a NULL-pointer
     dereference. In practice, it can crash both KVM itself and L1
     hypervisors that use invvpid (e.g. Xen).

Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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