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Message-Id: <20141205224436.090266405@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Fri,  5 Dec 2014 14:45:18 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Chris Webb <chris@...chsys.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 72/73] x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is read-only

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>

commit c1118b3602c2329671ad5ec8bdf8e374323d6343 upstream.

On x86_64, kernel text mappings are mapped read-only with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.
In that case, KVM will fail to patch VMCALL instructions to VMMCALL
as required on AMD processors.

The failure mode is currently a divide-by-zero exception, which obviously
is a KVM bug that has to be fixed.  However, picking the right instruction
between VMCALL and VMMCALL will be faster and will help if you cannot upgrade
the hypervisor.

Reported-by: Chris Webb <chris@...chsys.com>
Tested-by: Chris Webb <chris@...chsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h |    1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h   |   10 ++++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c         |    7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_DECODEASSISTS (8*32+12) /* AMD Decode Assists support */
 #define X86_FEATURE_PAUSEFILTER (8*32+13) /* AMD filtered pause intercept */
 #define X86_FEATURE_PFTHRESHOLD (8*32+14) /* AMD pause filter threshold */
+#define X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL	(8*32+15) /* Prefer vmmcall to vmcall */
 
 
 /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (ebx), word 9 */
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #define _ASM_X86_KVM_PARA_H
 
 #include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/alternative.h>
 #include <uapi/asm/kvm_para.h>
 
 extern void kvmclock_init(void);
@@ -16,10 +17,15 @@ static inline bool kvm_check_and_clear_g
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_KVM_GUEST */
 
-/* This instruction is vmcall.  On non-VT architectures, it will generate a
- * trap that we will then rewrite to the appropriate instruction.
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
+#define KVM_HYPERCALL \
+        ALTERNATIVE(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1", ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xd9", X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL)
+#else
+/* On AMD processors, vmcall will generate a trap that we will
+ * then rewrite to the appropriate instruction.
  */
 #define KVM_HYPERCALL ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1"
+#endif
 
 /* For KVM hypercalls, a three-byte sequence of either the vmcall or the vmmcall
  * instruction.  The hypervisor may replace it with something else but only the
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -508,6 +508,13 @@ static void early_init_amd(struct cpuinf
 	}
 #endif
 
+	/*
+	 * This is only needed to tell the kernel whether to use VMCALL
+	 * and VMMCALL.  VMMCALL is never executed except under virt, so
+	 * we can set it unconditionally.
+	 */
+	set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL);
+
 	/* F16h erratum 793, CVE-2013-6885 */
 	if (c->x86 == 0x16 && c->x86_model <= 0xf) {
 		u64 val;


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