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Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: MMU: fix reserved bit check for pte.u=0/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0

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On 03/08/2016 07:44 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> KVM handles supervisor writes of a pte.u=0/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0 page by
> setting U=0 and W=1 in the shadow PTE.  This will cause a user write
> to fault and a supervisor write to succeed (which is correct because
> CR0.WP=0).  A user read instead will flip U=0 to 1 and W=1 back to 0.
> This enables user reads; it also disables supervisor writes, the next
> of which will then flip the bits again.
>
> When SMEP is in effect, however, pte.u=0 will enable kernel execution
> of this page.  To avoid this, KVM also sets pte.nx=1.  The reserved bit
> catches this because it only looks at the guest's EFER.NX bit.  Teach it
> that smep_andnot_wp will also use the NX bit of SPTEs.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@redhat.com>

As a redhat guy i am so proud. :)

> Fixes: c258b62b264fdc469b6d3610a907708068145e3b

Thanks for you fixing it, Paolo!

Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>

> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>   arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 95a955de5964..0cd4ee01de94 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -3721,13 +3721,15 @@ static void reset_rsvds_bits_mask_ept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>   void
>   reset_shadow_zero_bits_mask(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu *context)
>   {
> +	int uses_nx = context->nx || context->base_role.smep_andnot_wp;

It would be better if it is 'bool'

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[PATCH 2/2] KVM: MMU: fix reserved bit check for pte.u=0/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-08 12:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: MMU: fix reserved bit check for  pte.u=0/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0 Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-03-10 09:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: MMU: fix reserved bit check for  pte.u=0/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-10 11:10 +0100

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