linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 61/99] KVM: x86/mmu: Apply max PA check for MMIO sptes to 32-bit KVM

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Message-ID: <lsq.1589984008.760545650@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 20 May 2020 15:14:29 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        "Sean Christopherson" <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 61/99] KVM: x86/mmu: Apply max PA check for MMIO
 sptes to 32-bit KVM

3.16.84-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>

commit e30a7d623dccdb3f880fbcad980b0cb589a1da45 upstream.

Remove the bogus 64-bit only condition from the check that disables MMIO
spte optimization when the system supports the max PA, i.e. doesn't have
any reserved PA bits.  32-bit KVM always uses PAE paging for the shadow
MMU, and per Intel's SDM:

  PAE paging translates 32-bit linear addresses to 52-bit physical
  addresses.

The kernel's restrictions on max physical addresses are limits on how
much memory the kernel can reasonably use, not what physical addresses
are supported by hardware.

Fixes: ce88decffd17 ("KVM: MMU: mmio page fault support")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5734,7 +5734,7 @@ static void kvm_set_mmio_spte_mask(void)
 	 * If reserved bit is not supported, clear the present bit to disable
 	 * mmio page fault.
 	 */
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64) && maxphyaddr == 52)
+	if (maxphyaddr == 52)
 		mask &= ~1ull;
 
 	kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask(mask);