When cache_info_passthrough is requested, QEMU passes the host values
of the cache information CPUID leaves down to the guest. However,
it blindly assumes that the CPUID leaf exists on the host, and this
cannot be guaranteed: for example, KVM has recently started to
synthesize AMD leaves up to 0x80000021 in order to provide accurate
CPU bug information to guests.
Querying a nonexistent host leaf fills the output arguments of
host_cpuid with data that (albeit deterministic) is nonsensical
as cache information, namely the data in the highest Intel CPUID
leaf. If said highest leaf is not ECX-dependent, this can even
cause an infinite loop when kvm_arch_init_vcpu prepares the input
to KVM_SET_CPUID2. The infinite loop is only terminated by an
abort() when the array gets full.
Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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