4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sean Christopherson sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
commit 34333cc6c2cb021662fd32e24e618d1b86de95bf upstream.
Regarding segments with a limit==0xffffffff, the SDM officially states:
When the effective limit is FFFFFFFFH (4 GBytes), these accesses may or may not cause the indicated exceptions. Behavior is implementation-specific and may vary from one execution to another.
In practice, all CPUs that support VMX ignore limit checks for "flat segments", i.e. an expand-up data or code segment with base=0 and limit=0xffffffff. This is subtly different than wrapping the effective address calculation based on the address size, as the flat segment behavior also applies to accesses that would wrap the 4g boundary, e.g. a 4-byte access starting at 0xffffffff will access linear addresses 0xffffffff, 0x0, 0x1 and 0x2.
Fixes: f9eb4af67c9d ("KVM: nVMX: VMX instructions: add checks for #GP/#SS exceptions") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson sean.j.christopherson@intel.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -7092,10 +7092,16 @@ static int get_vmx_mem_address(struct kv /* Protected mode: #GP(0)/#SS(0) if the segment is unusable. */ exn = (s.unusable != 0); - /* Protected mode: #GP(0)/#SS(0) if the memory - * operand is outside the segment limit. + + /* + * Protected mode: #GP(0)/#SS(0) if the memory operand is + * outside the segment limit. All CPUs that support VMX ignore + * limit checks for flat segments, i.e. segments with base==0, + * limit==0xffffffff and of type expand-up data or code. */ - exn = exn || (off + sizeof(u64) > s.limit); + if (!(s.base == 0 && s.limit == 0xffffffff && + ((s.type & 8) || !(s.type & 4)))) + exn = exn || (off + sizeof(u64) > s.limit); } if (exn) { kvm_queue_exception_e(vcpu,