Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Inject #GP if guest attempts to toggle CR4.LA57 in 64-bit mode

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Fri Jul 03 2020 - 12:16:18 EST


On 03/07/20 04:17, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Inject a #GP on MOV CR4 if CR4.LA57 is toggled in 64-bit mode, which is
> illegal per Intel's SDM:
>
> CR4.LA57
> 57-bit linear addresses (bit 12 of CR4) ... blah blah blah ...
> This bit cannot be modified in IA-32e mode.
>
> Note, the pseudocode for MOV CR doesn't call out the fault condition,
> which is likely why the check was missed during initial development.
> This is arguably an SDM bug and will hopefully be fixed in future
> release of the SDM.
>
> Fixes: fd8cb433734ee ("KVM: MMU: Expose the LA57 feature to VM.")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 00c88c2f34e4..2bb48896dbdc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -975,6 +975,8 @@ int kvm_set_cr4(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr4)
> if (is_long_mode(vcpu)) {
> if (!(cr4 & X86_CR4_PAE))
> return 1;
> + if ((cr4 ^ old_cr4) & X86_CR4_LA57)
> + return 1;
> } else if (is_paging(vcpu) && (cr4 & X86_CR4_PAE)
> && ((cr4 ^ old_cr4) & pdptr_bits)
> && !load_pdptrs(vcpu, vcpu->arch.walk_mmu,
>

Queued, thanks.

Paolo