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Sean Christopherson 68c9a46e9e KVM: x86: Return -E2BIG when KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID hits max entries 
Fix a long-standing bug that causes KVM to return 0 instead of -E2BIG
when userspace's array is insufficiently sized.

This technically breaks backwards compatibility, e.g. a userspace with a
hardcoded cpuid->nent could theoretically be broken as it would see an
error instead of success if cpuid->nent is less than the number of
entries required to fully enumerate the host CPU.  But, the lowest known
cpuid->nent hardcoded by a VMM is 100 (lkvm and selftests), and the
limit for current processors on Intel and AMD is well under a 100.  E.g.
Intel's Icelake server with all the bells and whistles tops out at ~60
entries (variable due to SGX sub-leafs), and AMD's CPUID documentation
allows for less than 50.  CPUID 0xD sub-leaves on current kernels are
capped by the value of KVM_SUPPORTED_XCR0, and therefore so many subleaves
cannot have appeared on current kernels.

Note, while the Fixes: tag is accurate with respect to the immediate
bug, it's likely that similar bugs in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID existed
prior to the refactoring, e.g. Qemu contains a workaround for the broken
KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID behavior that predates the buggy commit by over
two years.  The Qemu workaround is also likely the main reason the bug
has gone unreported for so long.

Qemu hack:
  commit 76ae317f7c16aec6b469604b1764094870a75470
  Author: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
  Date:   Tue May 19 18:55:21 2009 +0100

    kvm: work around supported cpuid ioctl() brokenness

    KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID has been known to fail to return -E2BIG
    when it runs out of entries. Detect this by always trying again
    with a bigger table if the ioctl() fills the table.

Fixes: 831bf664e9 ("KVM: Refactor and simplify kvm_dev_ioctl_get_supported_cpuid")
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-03-16 17:57:54 +01:00
arch KVM: x86: Return -E2BIG when KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID hits max entries 2020-03-16 17:57:54 +01:00
block block-5.6-2020-02-05 2020-02-06 06:15:23 +00:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto treewide: remove redundant IS_ERR() before error code check 2020-02-04 03:05:27 +00:00
Documentation KVM: x86: enable dirty log gradually in small chunks 2020-03-16 17:57:37 +01:00
drivers Kbuild updates for v5.6 (2nd) 2020-02-09 16:05:50 -08:00
fs Kbuild updates for v5.6 (2nd) 2020-02-09 16:05:50 -08:00
include KVM: Drop gfn_to_pfn_atomic() 2020-03-16 17:57:48 +01:00
init Tracing updates: 2020-02-06 07:12:11 +00:00
ipc proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
kernel Kbuild updates for v5.6 (2nd) 2020-02-09 16:05:50 -08:00
lib Kbuild updates for v5.6 (2nd) 2020-02-09 16:05:50 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm Merge branch 'merge.nfs-fs_parse.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-02-08 13:26:41 -08:00
net Kbuild updates for v5.6 (2nd) 2020-02-09 16:05:50 -08:00
samples Kbuild updates for v5.6 (2nd) 2020-02-09 16:05:50 -08:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v5.6 (2nd) 2020-02-09 16:05:50 -08:00
security Merge branch 'merge.nfs-fs_parse.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-02-08 13:26:41 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.6-rc1 2020-02-06 14:15:01 +00:00
tools kvm: selftests: Support dirty log initial-all-set test 2020-03-16 17:57:41 +01:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.6 (2nd) 2020-02-09 16:05:50 -08:00
virt KVM: Drop gfn_to_pfn_atomic() 2020-03-16 17:57:48 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
.mailmap A handful of small documentation fixes that wandered in. 2020-02-07 13:03:10 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS open: introduce openat2(2) syscall 2020-01-18 09:19:18 -05:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS fs: New zonefs file system 2020-02-09 15:51:46 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.6-rc1 2020-02-09 16:08:48 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -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 Restructured Text 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.