VMX: disable SMAP feature when guest is in non-paging mode
authorFeng Wu <feng.wu@intel.com>
Mon, 12 May 2014 15:03:09 +0000 (17:03 +0200)
committerJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Mon, 12 May 2014 15:03:09 +0000 (17:03 +0200)
SMAP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in hardware.
However Xen always uses paging mode to emulate guest non-paging
mode with HAP. To emulate this behavior, SMAP needs to be manually
disabled when guest switches to non-paging mode.

This logic is similiar with SMEP.

Signed-off-by: Feng Wu <feng.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c

index 00cab8aa9615070d33db0acef50d0607a0da1807..b6c022b21d3717f93269e7665139f89fa6937d9a 100644 (file)
@@ -1320,12 +1320,12 @@ static void vmx_update_guest_cr(struct vcpu *v, unsigned int cr)
         if ( !hvm_paging_enabled(v) )
         {
             /*
-             * SMEP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in hardware.
+             * SMEP/SMAP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in hardware.
              * However Xen always uses paging mode to emulate guest non-paging
-             * mode. To emulate this behavior, SMEP needs to be manually
+             * mode. To emulate this behavior, SMEP/SMAP needs to be manually
              * disabled when guest VCPU is in non-paging mode.
              */
-            v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[4] &= ~X86_CR4_SMEP;
+            v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[4] &= ~(X86_CR4_SMEP | X86_CR4_SMAP);
         }
         __vmwrite(GUEST_CR4, v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[4]);
         break;