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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] KVM/nVMX: Do not validate that posted_intr_desc_addr is page aligned
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 3:50 PM, KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> wrote:
> The spec only requires the posted interrupt descriptor address to be
> 64-bytes aligned (i.e. bits[0:5] == 0). Using page_address_valid also
> forces the address to be page aligned.
>
> Only validate that the address does not cross the maximum physical address
> without enforcing a page alignment.
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - Add a missing parenthesis (dropped while merging!)
>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 6de84e581c0 ("nVMX x86: check posted-interrupt descriptor addresss on vmentry of L2")
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>

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