linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix consistency check on injected exception error code

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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 09:28:37 -0700
From:   Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix consistency check on injected exception
 error code

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 9:21 AM Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@...el.com> wrote:
>
> Current versions of Intel's SDM incorrectly state that "bits 31:15 of
> the VM-Entry exception error-code field" must be zero.  In reality, bits
> 31:16 must be zero, i.e. error codes are 16-bit values.
>
> The bogus error code check manifests as an unexpected VM-Entry failure
> due to an invalid code field (error number 7) in L1, e.g. when injecting
> a #GP with error_code=0x9f00.
>
> Nadav previously reported the bug[*], both to KVM and Intel, and fixed
> the associated kvm-unit-test.
>
> [*] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11124749/
>
> Reported-by: Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>