Patch "KVM: VMX: introduce alloc_loaded_vmcs" 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

KVM: VMX: introduce alloc_loaded_vmcs

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:
KVM_VMX_introduce_alloc_loaded_vmcs.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.

Subject: KVM: VMX: introduce alloc_loaded_vmcs
From: Paolo Bonzini [email protected]
Date: Thu Jan 11 12:16:15 2018 +0100

From: Paolo Bonzini [email protected]

commit f21f165ef922c2146cc5bdc620f542953c41714b

Group together the calls to alloc_vmcs and loaded_vmcs_init. Soon we'll also allocate an MSR bitmap there.

---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

@@ -3814,11 +3814,6 @@ static struct vmcs *alloc_vmcs_cpu(int c
 	return vmcs;
 }
 
-static struct vmcs *alloc_vmcs(void)
-{
-	return alloc_vmcs_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id());
-}
-
 static void free_vmcs(struct vmcs *vmcs)
 {
 	free_pages((unsigned long)vmcs, vmcs_config.order);

@@ -3837,6 +3832,22 @@ static void free_loaded_vmcs(struct load
 	WARN_ON(loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs != NULL);
 }
 
+static struct vmcs *alloc_vmcs(void)
+{
+	return alloc_vmcs_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id());
+}
+
+static int alloc_loaded_vmcs(struct loaded_vmcs *loaded_vmcs)
+{
+	loaded_vmcs->vmcs = alloc_vmcs();
+	if (!loaded_vmcs->vmcs)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs = NULL;
+	loaded_vmcs_init(loaded_vmcs);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static void free_kvm_area(void)
 {
 	int cpu;

@@ -7135,12 +7146,11 @@ static int enter_vmx_operation(struct kv
 {
 	struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
 	struct vmcs *shadow_vmcs;
+	int r;
 
-	vmx->nested.vmcs02.vmcs = alloc_vmcs();
-	vmx->nested.vmcs02.shadow_vmcs = NULL;
-	if (!vmx->nested.vmcs02.vmcs)
+	r = alloc_loaded_vmcs(&vmx->nested.vmcs02);
+	if (r < 0)
 		goto out_vmcs02;
-	loaded_vmcs_init(&vmx->nested.vmcs02);
 
 	if (cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap()) {
 		vmx->nested.msr_bitmap =

@@ -9535,13 +9545,11 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *vmx_create_vcpu(
 	if (!vmx->guest_msrs)
 		goto free_pml;
 
-	vmx->loaded_vmcs = &vmx->vmcs01;
-	vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs = alloc_vmcs();
-	vmx->loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs = NULL;
-	if (!vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs)
+	err = alloc_loaded_vmcs(&vmx->vmcs01);
+	if (err < 0)
 		goto free_msrs;
-	loaded_vmcs_init(vmx->loaded_vmcs);
 
+	vmx->loaded_vmcs = &vmx->vmcs01;
 	cpu = get_cpu();
 	vmx_vcpu_load(&vmx->vcpu, cpu);
 	vmx->vcpu.cpu = cpu;

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

queue-4.14/x86pti_Do_not_enable_PTI_on_CPUs_which_are_not_vulnerable_to_Meltdown.patch queue-4.14/x86kvm_Update_spectre-v1_mitigation.patch queue-4.14/x86speculation_Use_Indirect_Branch_Prediction_Barrier_in_context_switch.patch queue-4.14/KVM_VMX_introduce_alloc_loaded_vmcs.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeature_Blacklist_SPEC_CTRLPRED_CMD_on_early_Spectre_v2_microcodes.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_Intel_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.14/x86paravirt_Remove_noreplace-paravirt_cmdline_option.patch queue-4.14/KVM_VMX_Make_indirect_call_speculation_safe.patch queue-4.14/x86msr_Add_definitions_for_new_speculation_control_MSRs.patch queue-4.14/KVMVMX_Allow_direct_access_to_MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_CPUID_7_EDX_CPUID_leaf.patch queue-4.14/KVM_nVMX_Eliminate_vmcs02_pool.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_AMD_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.14/KVMSVM_Allow_direct_access_to_MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL.patch queue-4.14/KVMx86_Add_IBPB_support.patch queue-4.14/KVMVMX_Emulate_MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.patch queue-4.14/x86speculation_Add_basic_IBPB_(Indirect_Branch_Prediction_Barrier)_support.patch queue-4.14/x86speculation_Simplify_indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().patch queue-4.14/KVM_VMX_make_MSR_bitmaps_per-VCPU.patch queue-4.14/KVM_x86_Make_indirect_calls_in_emulator_speculation_safe.patch queue-4.14/x86retpoline_Simplify_vmexit_fill_RSB().patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Clean_up_Spectre_v2_related_CPUID_flags.patch queue-4.14/KVMx86_Update_the_reverse_cpuid_list_to_include_CPUID_7_EDX.patch