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Sean Christopherson f21958e328 KVM: x86: Don't update PV features caches when enabling enforcement capability 
Revert the chunk of commit 01b4f510b9 ("kvm: x86: ensure pv_cpuid.features
is initialized when enabling cap") that forced a PV features cache refresh
during KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID, as whatever ioctl() ordering
issue it alleged to have fixed never existed upstream, and likely never
existed in any kernel.

At the time of the commit, there was a tangentially related ioctl()
ordering issue, as toggling KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_HLT after KVM_SET_CPUID2
would have resulted in KVM potentially leaving KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT set.
But (a) that bug affected the entire guest CPUID, not just the cache, (b)
commit 01b4f510b9 didn't address that bug, it only refreshed the cache
(with the bad CPUID), and (c) setting KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_HLT after vCPU
creation is completely broken as KVM configures HLT-exiting only during
vCPU creation, which is why KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS is now disallowed if
vCPUs have been created.

Another tangentially related bug was KVM's failure to clear the cache when
handling KVM_SET_CPUID2, but again commit 01b4f510b9 did nothing to fix
that bug.

The most plausible explanation for the what commit 01b4f510b9 was trying
to fix is a bug that existed in Google's internal kernel that was the
source of commit 01b4f510b9.  At the time, Google's internal kernel had
not yet picked up commit 0d3b2ba16b ("KVM: X86: Go on updating other
CPUID leaves when leaf 1 is absent"), i.e. KVM would not initialize the
PV features cache if KVM_SET_CPUID2 was called without a CPUID.0x1 entry.

Of course, no sane real world VMM would omit CPUID.0x1, including the KVM
selftest added by commit ac4a4d6de2 ("selftests: kvm: test enforcement
of paravirtual cpuid features").  And the test didn't actually try to
verify multiple orderings, nor did the selftest enter the guest without
doing KVM_SET_CPUID2, so who knows what motivated the change.

Regardless of why commit 01b4f510b9 ("kvm: x86: ensure pv_cpuid.features
is initialized when enabling cap") was added, refreshing the cache during
KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID isn't necessary.

Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241128013424.4096668-20-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2024-12-18 14:19:41 -08:00
arch KVM: x86: Don't update PV features caches when enabling enforcement capability 2024-12-18 14:19:41 -08:00
block blk-mq: move cpuhp callback registering out of q->sysfs_lock 2024-12-06 09:48:46 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal 2024-12-02 11:34:44 -08:00
Documentation KVM: x86: Disallow KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS after vCPU creation 2024-12-18 14:19:35 -08:00
drivers - Fix a /proc/interrupts formatting regression 2024-12-08 11:54:04 -08:00
fs 24 hotfixes. 17 are cc:stable. 15 are MM and 9 are non-MM. 2024-12-08 11:26:13 -08:00
include KVM: x86: Drop the now unused KVM_X86_DISABLE_VALID_EXITS 2024-12-18 14:19:37 -08:00
init - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko 2024-11-25 16:09:48 -08:00
io_uring io_uring: Change res2 parameter type in io_uring_cmd_done 2024-12-03 06:33:13 -07:00
ipc - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko 2024-11-25 16:09:48 -08:00
kernel - Fix a /proc/interrupts formatting regression 2024-12-08 11:54:04 -08:00
lib 24 hotfixes. 17 are cc:stable. 15 are MM and 9 are non-MM. 2024-12-08 11:26:13 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm 24 hotfixes. 17 are cc:stable. 15 are MM and 9 are non-MM. 2024-12-08 11:26:13 -08:00
net BPF fixes: 2024-12-06 15:07:48 -08:00
rust block-6.13-20242901 2024-11-30 15:47:29 -08:00
samples BPF fixes: 2024-12-06 15:07:48 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.13 2024-12-08 12:01:06 -08:00
security Including fixes from can and netfilter. 2024-12-05 10:25:06 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 6.13-rc2 2024-12-06 11:46:39 -08:00
tools KVM: selftests: Update x86's KVM PV test to match KVM's disabling exits behavior 2024-12-18 14:19:39 -08:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt VFIO updates for v6.13 2024-11-27 12:57:03 -08:00
.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: enable Clippy's check-private-items 2024-10-07 21:39:57 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v6.13 2024-11-30 13:41:50 -08:00
.mailmap media updates for v6.13-rc1 2024-11-20 14:01:15 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING
CREDITS cgroup: Changes for v6.13 2024-11-20 09:54:49 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS KVM: selftests: Use canonical $(ARCH) paths for KVM selftests directories 2024-12-18 14:15:04 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.13-rc2 2024-12-08 14:03:39 -08:00
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.