Re: [PATCH 4.14 057/126] KVM: SVM: Override default MMIO mask if memory encryption is enabled

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Mar 11 2020 - 09:06:37 EST


On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 03:59:25PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 3/10/20 1:42 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > On 3/10/20 1:19 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >> Has this been tested on the stable kernels? There's a recent bug report[*]
> >> that suggests the 4.19 backport of this patch may be causing issues.
> >
> > I missed this went the stable patches went by... when backported to the
> > older version of kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask() in the stable kernels (4.14
> > and 4.19), the call should have been:
> >
> > kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask(mask, mask) and not:
> >
> > kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask(mask, PT_WRITABLE_MASK | PT_USER_MASK);
> >
> > The call in the original upstream patch was:
> >
> > kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask(mask, mask, PT_WRITABLE_MASK | PT_USER_MASK);
>
> Greg,
>
> I should have asked in the earlier email... how do you want to address this?

I will fix this up now, thanks for pointing out what I got wrong...

greg k-h