4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Jan H. Schönherr" [ Upstream commit e1d39b17e044e8ae819827810d87d809ba5f58c0 ] The decision whether or not to exit from L2 to L1 on an lmsw instruction is based on bogus values: instead of using the information encoded within the exit qualification, it uses the data also used for the mov-to-cr instruction, which boils down to using whatever is in %eax at that point. Use the correct values instead. Without this fix, an L1 may not get notified when a 32-bit Linux L2 switches its secondary CPUs to protected mode; the L1 is only notified on the next modification of CR0. This short time window poses a problem, when there is some other reason to exit to L1 in between. Then, L2 will be resumed in real mode and chaos ensues. Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -7924,11 +7924,13 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_handled_cr(s { unsigned long exit_qualification = vmcs_readl(EXIT_QUALIFICATION); int cr = exit_qualification & 15; - int reg = (exit_qualification >> 8) & 15; - unsigned long val = kvm_register_readl(vcpu, reg); + int reg; + unsigned long val; switch ((exit_qualification >> 4) & 3) { case 0: /* mov to cr */ + reg = (exit_qualification >> 8) & 15; + val = kvm_register_readl(vcpu, reg); switch (cr) { case 0: if (vmcs12->cr0_guest_host_mask & @@ -7983,6 +7985,7 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_handled_cr(s * lmsw can change bits 1..3 of cr0, and only set bit 0 of * cr0. Other attempted changes are ignored, with no exit. */ + val = (exit_qualification >> LMSW_SOURCE_DATA_SHIFT) & 0x0f; if (vmcs12->cr0_guest_host_mask & 0xe & (val ^ vmcs12->cr0_read_shadow)) return true;