[PATCH v2 1/7] x86/hyper-v: check for required priviliges in hyperv_init()

Vitaly Kuznetsov vkuznets at redhat.com
Wed Dec 13 15:09:39 UTC 2017


In hyperv_init() we presume we always have access to VP index and hypercall
MSRs while according to the specification we should check if we're allowed
to access the corresponding MSRs before accessing them.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets at redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
index 189a398290db..21f9d53d9f00 100644
--- a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
@@ -110,12 +110,19 @@ static int hv_cpu_init(unsigned int cpu)
  */
 void hyperv_init(void)
 {
-	u64 guest_id;
+	u64 guest_id, required_msrs;
 	union hv_x64_msr_hypercall_contents hypercall_msr;
 
 	if (x86_hyper_type != X86_HYPER_MS_HYPERV)
 		return;
 
+	/* Absolutely required MSRs */
+	required_msrs = HV_X64_MSR_HYPERCALL_AVAILABLE |
+		HV_X64_MSR_VP_INDEX_AVAILABLE;
+
+	if ((ms_hyperv.features & required_msrs) != required_msrs)
+		return;
+
 	/* Allocate percpu VP index */
 	hv_vp_index = kmalloc_array(num_possible_cpus(), sizeof(*hv_vp_index),
 				    GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.14.3



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