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Radim Krčmář 05d8d34611 KVM: nVMX: do not warn when MSR bitmap address is not backed
Before trying to do nested_get_page() in nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap(),
we have already checked that the MSR bitmap address is valid (4k aligned
and within physical limits).  SDM doesn't specify what happens if the
there is no memory mapped at the valid address, but Intel CPUs treat the
situation as if the bitmap was configured to trap all MSRs.

KVM already does that by returning false and a correct handling doesn't
need the guest-trigerrable warning that was reported by syzkaller:
(The warning was originally there to catch some possible bugs in nVMX.)

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7832 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709
  nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709 [inline]
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7832 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709
  nested_get_vmcs12_pages+0xfb6/0x15c0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9640
  Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
  CPU: 0 PID: 7832 Comm: syz-executor1 Not tainted 4.10.0+ #229
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15 [inline]
   dump_stack+0x2ee/0x3ef lib/dump_stack.c:51
   panic+0x1fb/0x412 kernel/panic.c:179
   __warn+0x1c4/0x1e0 kernel/panic.c:540
   warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x40 kernel/panic.c:583
   nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709 [inline]
   nested_get_vmcs12_pages+0xfb6/0x15c0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9640
   enter_vmx_non_root_mode arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:10471 [inline]
   nested_vmx_run+0x6186/0xaab0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:10561
   handle_vmlaunch+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:7312
   vmx_handle_exit+0xfc0/0x3f00 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:8526
   vcpu_enter_guest arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:6982 [inline]
   vcpu_run arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7044 [inline]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x1418/0x4840 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7205
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x673/0x1120 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2570

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
[Jim Mattson explained the bare metal behavior: "I believe this behavior
 would be documented in the chipset data sheet rather than the SDM,
 since the chipset returns all 1s for an unclaimed read."]
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2017-03-09 15:34:51 +01:00
Documentation A few fixes for the docs tree, including one for a 4.11 build regression. 2017-03-04 11:32:18 -08:00
arch KVM: nVMX: do not warn when MSR bitmap address is not backed 2017-03-09 15:34:51 +01:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-03-03 10:53:35 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-03-04 10:42:53 -08:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-04 17:31:39 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 21:44:35 -08:00
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init sched/headers: Prepare to move _init() prototypes from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/init.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:40 +01:00
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samples Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
scripts objtool, modules: Discard objtool annotation sections for modules 2017-03-01 20:32:25 +01:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
tools Second batch of KVM changes for 4.11 merge window 2017-03-04 11:36:19 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt Second batch of KVM changes for 4.11 merge window 2017-03-04 11:36:19 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
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Makefile Linux 4.11-rc1 2017-03-05 12:59:56 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.