[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 66/97] KVM: VMX: avoid guest hang on invalid invept instruction

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Apr 4 23:26:30 UTC 2016


3.13.11-ckt38 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>

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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 6c1cd48..103762c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -6392,6 +6392,7 @@ 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;
 	}
 
-- 
2.7.4





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