KVM: VMX: Set IGMT bit in EPT entry

There is a potential issue that, when guest using pagetable without vmexit when
EPT enabled, guest would use PAT/PCD/PWT bits to index PAT msr for it's memory,
which would be inconsistent with host side and would cause host MCE due to
inconsistent cache attribute.

The patch set IGMT bit in EPT entry to ignore guest PAT and use WB as default
memory type to protect host (notice that all memory mapped by KVM should be WB).

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 2643b43..d06b4dc 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -3564,7 +3564,8 @@ static int __init vmx_init(void)
                bypass_guest_pf = 0;
                kvm_mmu_set_base_ptes(VMX_EPT_READABLE_MASK |
                        VMX_EPT_WRITABLE_MASK |
-                       VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_MT << VMX_EPT_MT_EPTE_SHIFT);
+                       VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_MT << VMX_EPT_MT_EPTE_SHIFT |
+                       VMX_EPT_IGMT_BIT);
                kvm_mmu_set_mask_ptes(0ull, 0ull, 0ull, 0ull,
                                VMX_EPT_EXECUTABLE_MASK);
                kvm_enable_tdp();

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.h
index 3e010d2..ec5edc3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.h
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ enum vmcs_field {
 #define VMX_EPT_READABLE_MASK                  0x1ull
 #define VMX_EPT_WRITABLE_MASK                  0x2ull
 #define VMX_EPT_EXECUTABLE_MASK                        0x4ull
+#define VMX_EPT_IGMT_BIT                       (1ull << 6)
 
 #define VMX_EPT_IDENTITY_PAGETABLE_ADDR                0xfffbc000ul