Re: [PATCH v4] KVM: vmx: fix ept reserved bits for 1-GByte page

[Wanpeng Li]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:13:07AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>Il 20/08/2014 09:31, Wanpeng Li ha scritto:
>> EPT misconfig handler in kvm will check which reason lead to EPT
>> misconfiguration after vmexit. One of the reasons is that an EPT
>> paging-structure entry is configured with settings reserved for
>> future functionality. However, the handler can't identify if
>> paging-structure entry of reserved bits for 1-GByte page are
>> configured, since PDPTE which point to 1-GByte page will reserve
>> bits 29:12 instead of bits 7:3 which are reserved for PDPTE that
>> references an EPT Page Directory. This patch fix it by reserve
>> bits 29:12 for 1-GByte page.
>
>Thanks, the patch looks good.
>
>Can you describe how you detected the problem and how you're testing for it?
>

I found the issue by reviewing codes.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li 

>Paolo
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