[PATCH 0/4] KVM: X86: Improve permission_fault() for SMAP

From: Lai Jiangshan
Date: Tue Dec 07 2021 - 04:50:28 EST


From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

permission_fault() calls two callbacks to get CPL and RFLAGS for SMAP,
but it is unneeded for some cases, this patchset improves it.

Lai Jiangshan (4):
KVM: X86: Fix comments in update_permission_bitmask
KVM: X86: Rename variable smap to not_smap in permission_fault()
KVM: X86: Handle implicit supervisor access with SMAP
KVM: X86: Only get rflags when needed in permission_fault()

arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 9 +++++++
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 8 +++---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 20 ++++++++++++---
4 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

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