From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 19:03:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86, kvm: Clear paravirt_enabled on KVM guests for espfix32's benefit paravirt_enabled has the following effects: - Disables the F00F bug workaround warning. There is no F00F bug workaround any more because Linux's standard IDT handling already works around the F00F bug, but the warning still exists. This is only cosmetic, and, in any event, there is no such thing as KVM on a CPU with the F00F bug. - Disables 32-bit APM BIOS detection. On a KVM paravirt system, there should be no APM BIOS anyway. - Disables tboot. I think that the tboot code should check the CPUID hypervisor bit directly if it matters. - paravirt_enabled disables espfix32. espfix32 should *not* be disabled under KVM paravirt. The last point is the purpose of this patch. It fixes a leak of the high 16 bits of the kernel stack address on 32-bit KVM paravirt guests. While I'm at it, this removes pv_info setup from kvmclock. That code seems to serve no purpose. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski --- arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 9 ++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c index 3dd8e2c4d74a..07de51f66deb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c @@ -282,7 +282,14 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_async_page_fault); static void __init paravirt_ops_setup(void) { pv_info.name = "KVM"; - pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1; + + /* + * KVM isn't paravirt in the sense of paravirt_enabled. A KVM + * guest kernel works like a bare metal kernel with additional + * features, and paravirt_enabled is about features that are + * missing. + */ + pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 0; if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_NOP_IO_DELAY)) pv_cpu_ops.io_delay = kvm_io_delay; diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c index d9156ceecdff..d4d9a8ad7893 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c @@ -263,8 +263,6 @@ void __init kvmclock_init(void) #endif kvm_get_preset_lpj(); clocksource_register_hz(&kvm_clock, NSEC_PER_SEC); - pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1; - pv_info.name = "KVM"; if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT)) pvclock_set_flags(PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT); -- 2.1.0