ff8828c84f
Do not blindly mark all registers as available+dirty at RESET/INIT, and
instead rely on writes to registers to go through the proper mutators or
to explicitly mark registers as dirty. INIT in particular does not blindly
overwrite all registers, e.g. select bits in CR0 are preserved across INIT,
thus marking registers available+dirty without first reading the register
from hardware is incorrect.
In practice this is a benign bug as KVM doesn't let the guest control CR0
bits that are preserved across INIT, and all other true registers are
explicitly written during the RESET/INIT flows. The PDPTRs and EX_INFO
"registers" are not explicitly written, but accessing those values during
RESET/INIT is nonsensical and would be a KVM bug regardless of register
caching.
Fixes: 66f7b72e1171 ("KVM: x86: Make register state after reset conform to specification")
[sean: !!! NOT FOR STABLE !!!]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210921000303.400537-4-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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.