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Maxim Levitsky d483bf624f KVM: x86: model canonical checks more precisely 
[ Upstream commit 9245fd6b85 ]

As a result of a recent investigation, it was determined that x86 CPUs
which support 5-level paging, don't always respect CR4.LA57 when doing
canonical checks.

In particular:

1. MSRs which contain a linear address, allow full 57-bitcanonical address
regardless of CR4.LA57 state. For example: MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE.

2. All hidden segment bases and GDT/IDT bases also behave like MSRs.
This means that full 57-bit canonical address can be loaded to them
regardless of CR4.LA57, both using MSRS (e.g GS_BASE) and instructions
(e.g LGDT).

3. TLB invalidation instructions also allow the user to use full 57-bit
address regardless of the CR4.LA57.

Finally, it must be noted that the CPU doesn't prevent the user from
disabling 5-level paging, even when the full 57-bit canonical address is
present in one of the registers mentioned above (e.g GDT base).

In fact, this can happen without any userspace help, when the CPU enters
SMM mode - some MSRs, for example MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE are left to contain
a non-canonical address in regard to the new mode.

Since most of the affected MSRs and all segment bases can be read and
written freely by the guest without any KVM intervention, this patch makes
the emulator closely follow hardware behavior, which means that the
emulator doesn't take in the account the guest CPUID support for 5-level
paging, and only takes in the account the host CPU support.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240906221824.491834-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Stable-dep-of: fa787ac07b ("KVM: x86/hyper-v: Skip non-canonical addresses during PV TLB flush")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-08-01 09:48:46 +01:00
arch KVM: x86: model canonical checks more precisely 2025-08-01 09:48:46 +01:00
block block: fix kobject leak in blk_unregister_queue 2025-07-24 08:56:30 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: ecdsa - Harden against integer overflows in DIV_ROUND_UP() 2025-07-17 18:37:24 +02:00
Documentation bpf: Adjust free target to avoid global starvation of LRU map 2025-07-17 18:37:22 +02:00
drivers mtd: rawnand: qcom: Fix last codeword read in qcom_param_page_type_exec() 2025-08-01 09:48:45 +01:00
fs ext4: fix out of bounds punch offset 2025-08-01 09:48:46 +01:00
include sprintf.h requires stdarg.h 2025-08-01 09:48:43 +01:00
init rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's unnecessary_transmutes lint 2025-05-18 08:24:51 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/poll: fix POLLERR handling 2025-07-24 08:56:23 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel selftests/bpf: Add tests with stack ptr register in conditional jmp 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
lib lib/alloc_tag: do not acquire non-existent lock in alloc_tag_top_users() 2025-07-17 18:37:14 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/zsmalloc: do not pass __GFP_MOVABLE if CONFIG_COMPACTION=n 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
net net/sched: sch_qfq: Avoid triggering might_sleep in atomic context in qfq_delete_class 2025-08-01 09:48:41 +01:00
rust rust: use #[used(compiler)] to fix build and modpost with Rust >= 1.89.0 2025-07-24 08:56:37 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix compilation failure for samples/bpf on LoongArch Fedora 2025-05-29 11:02:01 +02:00
scripts rust: use #[used(compiler)] to fix build and modpost with Rust >= 1.89.0 2025-07-24 08:56:37 +02:00
security selinux: change security_compute_sid to return the ssid or tsid on match 2025-07-10 16:05:04 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Add mute LED support for HP Victus 15-fa0xxx 2025-08-01 09:48:43 +01:00
tools selftests/bpf: Add tests with stack ptr register in conditional jmp 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-13 13:02:18 +01:00
virt KVM: Allow CPU to reschedule while setting per-page memory attributes 2025-07-17 18:37:08 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update Alexey Makhalov's email address 2025-05-22 14:29:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.40 2025-07-24 08:56:38 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

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.