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| author | Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> | 2015-11-25 12:21:39 +0300 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2015-11-25 17:52:55 +0300 |
| commit | b2467e744f89fcb2e723143c2b78bcbaf391828a (patch) | |
| tree | 6bf43a5affc9ecc1a8d027dbb2fad3e72eb2ea36 /arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c | |
| parent | 8bd142c01648cdb33e9bcafa0448ba2c20ed814c (diff) | |
| download | linux-b2467e744f89fcb2e723143c2b78bcbaf391828a.tar.xz | |
KVM: nVMX: remove incorrect vpid check in nested invvpid emulation
This patch removes the vpid check when emulating nested invvpid
instruction of type all-contexts invalidation. The existing code is
incorrect because:
(1) According to Intel SDM Vol 3, Section "INVVPID - Invalidate
Translations Based on VPID", invvpid instruction does not check
vpid in the invvpid descriptor when its type is all-contexts
invalidation.
(2) According to the same document, invvpid of type all-contexts
invalidation does not require there is an active VMCS, so/and
get_vmcs12() in the existing code may result in a NULL-pointer
dereference. In practice, it can crash both KVM itself and L1
hypervisors that use invvpid (e.g. Xen).
Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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