Patch "x86/paravirt: Provide a way to check for hypervisors" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

x86/paravirt: Provide a way to check for hypervisors

to the 4.14-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:
x86-paravirt-provide-a-way-to-check-for-hypervisors.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

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

From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:31 +0100
Subject: x86/paravirt: Provide a way to check for hypervisors

From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

commit 79cc74155218316b9a5d28577c7077b2adba8e58 upstream.

There is no generic way to test whether a kernel is running on a specific hypervisor. But that's required to prevent the upcoming user address space separation feature in certain guest modes.

Make the hypervisor type enum unconditionally available and provide a helper function which allows to test for a specific type.

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h |   25 +++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

@@ -20,16 +20,7 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_X86_HYPERVISOR_H
 #define _ASM_X86_HYPERVISOR_H
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST
-
-#include <asm/kvm_para.h>
-#include <asm/x86_init.h>
-#include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
-
-/*
- * x86 hypervisor information
- */
-
+/* x86 hypervisor types  */
 enum x86_hypervisor_type {
 	X86_HYPER_NATIVE = 0,
 	X86_HYPER_VMWARE,

@@ -39,6 +30,12 @@ enum x86_hypervisor_type {
 	X86_HYPER_KVM,
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST
+
+#include <asm/kvm_para.h>
+#include <asm/x86_init.h>
+#include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
+
 struct hypervisor_x86 {
 	/* Hypervisor name */
 	const char	*name;

@@ -58,7 +55,15 @@ struct hypervisor_x86 {
 
 extern enum x86_hypervisor_type x86_hyper_type;
 extern void init_hypervisor_platform(void);
+static inline bool hypervisor_is_type(enum x86_hypervisor_type type)
+{
+	return x86_hyper_type == type;
+}
 #else
 static inline void init_hypervisor_platform(void) { }
+static inline bool hypervisor_is_type(enum x86_hypervisor_type type)
+{
+	return type == X86_HYPER_NATIVE;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST */
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_HYPERVISOR_H */

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