KVM: VMX: disable SMEP feature when guest is in non-paging mode

SMEP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in hardware.
However KVM always uses paging mode to emulate guest non-paging
mode with TDP. To emulate this behavior, SMEP needs to be manually
disabled when guest switches to non-paging mode.

We met an issue that, SMP Linux guest with recent kernel (enable
SMEP support, for example, 3.5.3) would crash with triple fault if
setting unrestricted_guest=0. This is because KVM uses an identity
mapping page table to emulate the non-paging mode, where the page
table is set with USER flag. If SMEP is still enabled in this case,
guest will meet unhandlable page fault and then crash.

Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 0cf74a641dec..fe9a9cfadbd6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -3227,6 +3227,14 @@ static int vmx_set_cr4(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr4)
                 if (!is_paging(vcpu)) {
                         hw_cr4 &= ~X86_CR4_PAE;
                         hw_cr4 |= X86_CR4_PSE;
+                        /*
+                         * SMEP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in
+                         * hardware. However KVM always uses paging mode to
+                         * emulate guest non-paging mode with TDP.
+                         * To emulate this behavior, SMEP needs to be manually
+                         * disabled when guest switches to non-paging mode.
+                         */
+                        hw_cr4 &= ~X86_CR4_SMEP;
                 } else if (!(cr4 & X86_CR4_PAE)) {
                         hw_cr4 &= ~X86_CR4_PAE;
                 }