KVM: x86: bit 8 of non-leaf PDPEs is not reserved
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1888690 commit 5ecad245 upstream. Bit 8 would be the "global" bit, which does not quite make sense for non-leaf page table entries. Intel ignores it; AMD ignores it in PDEs and PDPEs, but reserves it in PML4Es. Probably, earlier versions of the AMD manual documented it as reserved in PDPEs as well, and that behavior made it into KVM as well as kvm-unit-tests; fix it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Fixes: a0c0feb5 ("KVM: x86: reserve bit 8 of non-leaf PDPEs and PML4Es in 64-bit mode on AMD", 2014-09-03) Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
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