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| author | Sean Christopherson <[email protected]> | 2020-03-02 15:56:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> | 2020-03-16 17:57:54 +0100 |
| commit | 68c9a46e9ee8e9f673c7e0d1bbf483a289b5a86f (patch) | |
| tree | 58d8a466d365fcc273765c4206b163578a6f0bb3 /tools/perf/scripts/python/net_dropmonitor.py | |
| parent | 06add254c7f3b7f6fdfe04eb028aaabe5b27a734 (diff) | |
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 <[email protected]>
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: 831bf664e9c1f ("KVM: Refactor and simplify kvm_dev_ioctl_get_supported_cpuid")
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
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