summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/arch
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorBen Serebrin <serebrin@google.com>2015-04-16 11:58:05 -0700
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-04-21 19:01:44 +0200
commit085e68eeafbf76e21848ad5bafaecec88a11dd64 (patch)
tree67ac2223d422bd7db56c9929e16394ae52a796dd /arch
parentdecf63336e356423300b935afbebeca1fcb15184 (diff)
KVM: VMX: Preserve host CR4.MCE value while in guest mode.
The host's decision to enable machine check exceptions should remain in force during non-root mode. KVM was writing 0 to cr4 on VCPU reset and passed a slightly-modified 0 to the vmcs.guest_cr4 value. Tested: Built. On earlier version, tested by injecting machine check while a guest is spinning. Before the change, if guest CR4.MCE==0, then the machine check is escalated to Catastrophic Error (CATERR) and the machine dies. If guest CR4.MCE==1, then the machine check causes VMEXIT and is handled normally by host Linux. After the change, injecting a machine check causes normal Linux machine check handling. Signed-off-by: Ben Serebrin <serebrin@google.com> Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index f5e8dce8046c..f7b61687bd79 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -3622,8 +3622,16 @@ static void vmx_set_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr3)
static int vmx_set_cr4(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr4)
{
- unsigned long hw_cr4 = cr4 | (to_vmx(vcpu)->rmode.vm86_active ?
- KVM_RMODE_VM_CR4_ALWAYS_ON : KVM_PMODE_VM_CR4_ALWAYS_ON);
+ /*
+ * Pass through host's Machine Check Enable value to hw_cr4, which
+ * is in force while we are in guest mode. Do not let guests control
+ * this bit, even if host CR4.MCE == 0.
+ */
+ unsigned long hw_cr4 =
+ (cr4_read_shadow() & X86_CR4_MCE) |
+ (cr4 & ~X86_CR4_MCE) |
+ (to_vmx(vcpu)->rmode.vm86_active ?
+ KVM_RMODE_VM_CR4_ALWAYS_ON : KVM_PMODE_VM_CR4_ALWAYS_ON);
if (cr4 & X86_CR4_VMXE) {
/*