Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Date | Thu, 14 May 2009 15:33:19 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | [patch 44/51] KVM: Make EFER reads safe when EFER does not exist |
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2.6.29-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
commit e286e86e6d2042d67d09244aa0e05ffef75c9d54 upstream.
Some processors don't have EFER; don't oops if userspace wants us to read EFER when we check NX.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -1075,9 +1075,9 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu * static int is_efer_nx(void) { - u64 efer; + unsigned long long efer = 0; - rdmsrl(MSR_EFER, efer); + rdmsrl_safe(MSR_EFER, &efer); return efer & EFER_NX; }
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