linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 11/50] KVM: MMU: fix reserved bit check for ept=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0

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Message-Id: <20160314175015.010594596@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:50:29 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.inel.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 11/50] KVM: MMU: fix reserved bit check for ept=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0

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

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

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

commit 5f0b819995e172f48fdcd91335a2126ba7d9deae upstream.

KVM has special logic to handle pages with pte.u=1 and pte.w=0 when
CR0.WP=1.  These pages' SPTEs flip continuously between two states:
U=1/W=0 (user and supervisor reads allowed, supervisor writes not allowed)
and U=0/W=1 (supervisor reads and writes allowed, user writes not allowed).

When SMEP is in effect, however, U=0 will enable kernel execution of
this page.  To avoid this, KVM also sets NX=1 in the shadow PTE together
with U=0, making the two states U=1/W=0/NX=gpte.NX and U=0/W=1/NX=1.
When guest EFER has the NX bit cleared, the reserved bit check thinks
that the latter state is invalid; teach it that the smep_andnot_wp case
will also use the NX bit of SPTEs.

Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.inel.com>
Fixes: c258b62b264fdc469b6d3610a907708068145e3b
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -3754,13 +3754,15 @@ static void reset_rsvds_bits_mask_ept(st
 void
 reset_shadow_zero_bits_mask(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu *context)
 {
+	bool uses_nx = context->nx || context->base_role.smep_andnot_wp;
+
 	/*
 	 * Passing "true" to the last argument is okay; it adds a check
 	 * on bit 8 of the SPTEs which KVM doesn't use anyway.
 	 */
 	__reset_rsvds_bits_mask(vcpu, &context->shadow_zero_check,
 				boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits,
-				context->shadow_root_level, context->nx,
+				context->shadow_root_level, uses_nx,
 				guest_cpuid_has_gbpages(vcpu), is_pse(vcpu),
 				true);
 }