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Commit 34245423 authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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KVM: x86/mmu: Resolve nx_huge_pages when kvm.ko is loaded

commit 1d0e8480 upstream.

Resolve nx_huge_pages to true/false when kvm.ko is loaded, leaving it as
-1 is technically undefined behavior when its value is read out by
param_get_bool(), as boolean values are supposed to be '0' or '1'.

Alternatively, KVM could define a custom getter for the param, but the
auto value doesn't depend on the vendor module in any way, and printing
"auto" would be unnecessarily unfriendly to the user.

In addition to fixing the undefined behavior, resolving the auto value
also fixes the scenario where the auto value resolves to N and no vendor
module is loaded.  Previously, -1 would result in Y being printed even
though KVM would ultimately disable the mitigation.

Rename the existing MMU module init/exit helpers to clarify that they're
invoked with respect to the vendor module, and add comments to document
why KVM has two separate "module init" flows.

  =========================================================================
  UBSAN: invalid-load in kernel/params.c:320:33
  load of value 255 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
  CPU: 6 PID: 892 Comm: tail Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3+ #799
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
   ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x40
   __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value.cold+0x43/0x48
   param_get_bool.cold+0xf/0x14
   param_attr_show+0x55/0x80
   module_attr_show+0x1c/0x30
   sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x93/0xc0
   seq_read_iter+0x11c/0x450
   new_sync_read+0x11b/0x1a0
   vfs_read+0xf0/0x190
   ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0
   do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
   </TASK>
  =========================================================================

Fixes: b8e8c830

 ("kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarBruno Goncalves <bgoncalv@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarJan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220331221359.3912754-1-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 06c348fd
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