Patch "KVM: MMU: fix CR4.SMEP=1, CR0.WP=0 with shadow pages" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KVM: MMU: fix CR4.SMEP=1, CR0.WP=0 with shadow pages
to the 3.10-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-mmu-fix-cr4.smep-1-cr0.wp-0-with-shadow-pages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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898761158be7682082955e3efa4ad24725305fc7Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 11:04:05 +0200
Subject: KVM: MMU: fix CR4.SMEP=1, CR0.WP=0 with shadow pages
From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
commit 898761158be7682082955e3efa4ad24725305fc7 upstream.
smep_andnot_wp is initialized in kvm_init_shadow_mmu and shadow pages should not be reused for different values of it. Thus, it has to be added to the mask in kvm_mmu_pte_write.
--- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +1 -1
@@ -3975,7 +3975,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_pte_write(struct kvm_vcpu * ++vcpu->kvm->stat.mmu_pte_write;kvm_mmu_audit (vcpu,AUDIT_PRE_PTE_WRITE ); - mask.cr0_wp = mask.cr4_pae = mask.nxe =1 ; + mask.cr0_wp = mask.cr4_pae = mask.nxe = mask.smep_andnot_wp =1 ;for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp (vcpu->kvm, sp, gfn) {if (detect_write_misaligned (sp, gpa, bytes) ||detect_write_flooding (sp)) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.10/kvm-mmu-fix-cr4.smep-1-cr0.wp-0-with-shadow-pages.patch