3.16.82-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com
commit cbbaa2727aa3ae9e0a844803da7cef7fd3b94f2b upstream.
KVM does not implement MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL, so it must not be presented to the guests. It is also confusing to have !ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR && !RTM && ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO: lack of MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL suggests TSX was not hidden (it actually was), yet the value says that TSX is not vulnerable to microarchitectural data sampling. Fix both.
Tested-by: Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -945,10 +945,15 @@ u64 kvm_get_arch_capabilities(void) * If TSX is disabled on the system, guests are also mitigated against * TAA and clear CPU buffer mitigation is not required for guests. */ - if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TAA) && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM) && - (data & ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR)) + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM)) + data &= ~ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO; + else if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TAA)) + data |= ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO; + else if (data & ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR) data &= ~ARCH_CAP_MDS_NO;
+ /* KVM does not emulate MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL. */ + data &= ~ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR; return data; }