linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: x86: bit 8 of non-leaf PDPEs is not reserved

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Date:   Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:10:05 -0400
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: bit 8 of non-leaf PDPEs is not reserved

Bit 8 would be the "global" bit, which does not quite make sense for non-leaf
page table entries.  Intel ignores it; AMD ignores it in PDEs and PDPEs, but
reserves it in PML4Es.

Probably, earlier versions of the AMD manual documented it as reserved in PDPEs
as well, and that behavior made it into KVM as well as kvm-unit-tests; fix it.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
Fixes: a0c0feb57992 ("KVM: x86: reserve bit 8 of non-leaf PDPEs and PML4Es in 64-bit mode on AMD", 2014-09-03)
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 76817d13c86e..6d6a0ae7800c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -4449,7 +4449,7 @@ __reset_rsvds_bits_mask(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 			nonleaf_bit8_rsvd | rsvd_bits(7, 7) |
 			rsvd_bits(maxphyaddr, 51);
 		rsvd_check->rsvd_bits_mask[0][2] = exb_bit_rsvd |
-			nonleaf_bit8_rsvd | gbpages_bit_rsvd |
+			gbpages_bit_rsvd |
 			rsvd_bits(maxphyaddr, 51);
 		rsvd_check->rsvd_bits_mask[0][1] = exb_bit_rsvd |
 			rsvd_bits(maxphyaddr, 51);
-- 
2.26.2