FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: VMX: fix vmwrite to invalid VMCS" failed to apply to 4.1-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From: =?UTF-8?q?Radim=20Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99?= <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 15:49:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: fix vmwrite to invalid VMCS
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fpu_activate is called outside of vcpu_load(), which means it should not touch VMCS, but fpu_activate needs to. Avoid the call by moving it to a point where we know that the guest needs eager FPU and VMCS is loaded.

This will get rid of the following trace

vmwrite error: reg 6800 value 0 (err 1)

  [<ffffffff8162035b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [<ffffffffa046c701>] vmwrite_error+0x2c/0x2e [kvm_intel]
  [<ffffffffa045f26f>] vmcs_writel+0x1f/0x30 [kvm_intel]
  [<ffffffffa04617e5>] vmx_fpu_activate.part.61+0x45/0xb0 [kvm_intel]
  [<ffffffffa0461865>] vmx_fpu_activate+0x15/0x20 [kvm_intel]
  [<ffffffffa0560b91>] kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x51/0x70 [kvm]
  [<ffffffffa0548011>] kvm_vm_ioctl+0x1c1/0x760 [kvm]
  [<ffffffff8118b55a>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x49a/0xec0
  [<ffffffff811e47d5>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2e5/0x4c0
  [<ffffffff8127abbe>] ? file_has_perm+0xae/0xc0
  [<ffffffff811e4a51>] SyS_ioctl+0xa1/0xc0
  [<ffffffff81630949>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

(Note: we also unconditionally activate FPU in vmx_vcpu_reset(), so the
removed code added nothing.)

index 64dd46793099..2fbea2544f24 100644
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ int kvm_update_cpuid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		best->ebx = xstate_required_size(vcpu->arch.xcr0, true);
 
 	vcpu->arch.eager_fpu = use_eager_fpu() || guest_cpuid_has_mpx(vcpu);
+	if (vcpu->arch.eager_fpu)
+		kvm_x86_ops->fpu_activate(vcpu);
 
 	/*
 	 * The existing code assumes virtual address is 48-bit in the canonical

index bbaf44e8f0d3..6bd19c7abc65 100644
@@ -7315,11 +7315,6 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm *kvm,
 
 	vcpu = kvm_x86_ops->vcpu_create(kvm, id);
 
-	/*
-	 * Activate fpu unconditionally in case the guest needs eager FPU.  It will be
-	 * deactivated soon if it doesn't.
-	 */
-	kvm_x86_ops->fpu_activate(vcpu);
 	return vcpu;
 }