[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "KVM: x86: remove vcpu's CPL check in host-invoked XCR set" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    KVM: x86: remove vcpu's CPL check in host-invoked XCR set

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From b39f225bf813569ff187712ca258c597b64e99a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Zhanghaoyu (A)" <haoyu.zhang at huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:36:13 +0000
Subject: KVM: x86: remove vcpu's CPL check in host-invoked XCR set

commit 764bcbc5a6d7a2f3e75c9f0e4caa984e2926e346 upstream.

__kvm_set_xcr function does the CPL check when set xcr. __kvm_set_xcr is
called in two flows, one is invoked by guest, call stack shown as below,

  handle_xsetbv(or xsetbv_interception)
    kvm_set_xcr
      __kvm_set_xcr

the other one is invoked by host, for example during system reset:

  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl
    kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_set_xcrs
      __kvm_set_xcr

The former does need the CPL check, but the latter does not.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Haoyu <haoyu.zhang at huawei.com>
[Tweaks to commit message. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 9a51121..ff74a2c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -558,8 +558,6 @@ int __kvm_set_xcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 index, u64 xcr)
 	if (index != XCR_XFEATURE_ENABLED_MASK)
 		return 1;
 	xcr0 = xcr;
-	if (kvm_x86_ops->get_cpl(vcpu) != 0)
-		return 1;
 	if (!(xcr0 & XSTATE_FP))
 		return 1;
 	if ((xcr0 & XSTATE_YMM) && !(xcr0 & XSTATE_SSE))
@@ -573,7 +571,8 @@ int __kvm_set_xcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 index, u64 xcr)

 int kvm_set_xcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 index, u64 xcr)
 {
-	if (__kvm_set_xcr(vcpu, index, xcr)) {
+	if (kvm_x86_ops->get_cpl(vcpu) != 0 ||
+	    __kvm_set_xcr(vcpu, index, xcr)) {
 		kvm_inject_gp(vcpu, 0);
 		return 1;
 	}
--
1.8.1.2