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Date:	Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:58:48 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Subject: [151/289] KVM: VMX: Fix host userspace gsbase corruption

2.6.36-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>

commit c8770e7ba63bb5dd8fe5f9d251275a8fa717fb78 upstream.

We now use load_gs_index() to load gs safely; unfortunately this also
changes MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, which we managed separately.  This resulted
in confusion and breakage running 32-bit host userspace on a 64-bit kernel.

Fix by
- saving guest MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE before we we reload the host's gs
- doing the host save/load unconditionally, instead of only when in guest
  long mode

Things can be cleaned up further, but this is the minmal fix for now.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |   15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -828,10 +828,9 @@ static void vmx_save_host_state(struct k
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu)) {
-		rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_host_kernel_gs_base);
+	rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_host_kernel_gs_base);
+	if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu))
 		wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
-	}
 #endif
 	for (i = 0; i < vmx->save_nmsrs; ++i)
 		kvm_set_shared_msr(vmx->guest_msrs[i].index,
@@ -846,11 +845,14 @@ static void __vmx_load_host_state(struct
 
 	++vmx->vcpu.stat.host_state_reload;
 	vmx->host_state.loaded = 0;
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+	if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu))
+		rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
+#endif
 	if (vmx->host_state.gs_ldt_reload_needed) {
 		kvm_load_ldt(vmx->host_state.ldt_sel);
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 		load_gs_index(vmx->host_state.gs_sel);
-		wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, current->thread.gs);
 #else
 		loadsegment(gs, vmx->host_state.gs_sel);
 #endif
@@ -859,10 +861,7 @@ static void __vmx_load_host_state(struct
 		loadsegment(fs, vmx->host_state.fs_sel);
 	reload_tss();
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu)) {
-		rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
-		wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_host_kernel_gs_base);
-	}
+	wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_host_kernel_gs_base);
 #endif
 	if (current_thread_info()->status & TS_USEDFPU)
 		clts();


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