Patch "KVM: VMX: avoid guest hang on invalid invept instruction" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

KVM: VMX: avoid guest hang on invalid invept instruction

to the 4.5-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-vmx-avoid-guest-hang-on-invalid-invept-instruction.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:53:29 +0100
Subject: KVM: VMX: avoid guest hang on invalid invept instruction

From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>

commit 2849eb4f99d54925c543db12917127f88b3c38ff upstream.

A guest executing an invalid invept instruction would hang because the instruction pointer was not updated.

---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -7398,6 +7398,7 @@ static int handle_invept(struct kvm_vcpu
 	if (!(types & (1UL << type))) {
 		nested_vmx_failValid(vcpu,
 				VMXERR_INVALID_OPERAND_TO_INVEPT_INVVPID);
+		skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
 		return 1;
 	}
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.5/kvm-vmx-fix-nested-vpid-for-old-kvm-guests.patch queue-4.5/kvm-x86-fix-missed-hardware-breakpoints.patch queue-4.5/kvm-vmx-avoid-guest-hang-on-invalid-invvpid-instruction.patch queue-4.5/kvm-i8254-change-pit-discard-tick-policy.patch queue-4.5/kvm-fix-spin_lock_init-order-on-x86.patch queue-4.5/kvm-vmx-avoid-guest-hang-on-invalid-invept-instruction.patch