[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "KVM: VMX: avoid guest hang on invalid invept instruction" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

[Luis Henriques]

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

    KVM: VMX: avoid guest hang on invalid invept instruction

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt27.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:53:29 +0100
Subject: KVM: VMX: avoid guest hang on invalid invept instruction

commit 2849eb4f99d54925c543db12917127f88b3c38ff upstream.

A guest executing an invalid invept instruction would hang
because the instruction pointer was not updated.

Fixes: bfd0a56b90005f8c8a004baf407ad90045c2b11e
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index e7cd4c833c40..e890c0398d62 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -6601,6 +6601,7 @@ static int handle_invept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (!(types & (1UL << type))) {
 		nested_vmx_failValid(vcpu,
 				VMXERR_INVALID_OPERAND_TO_INVEPT_INVVPID);
+		skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
 		return 1;
 	}