Public bug reported:

[Impact]
A guest will hang while booting under 4.18.0-10.11 because of "kvm: x86: Set 
highest physical address bits in non-present/reserved SPTEs", which came in via 
4.18.y.

[Test Case]
A guest was booted after applying the patch.

[Regression Potential]
It might break KVM on systems with different physical memory limits, which is 
just what upstream might have been testing the most.

============

A fix is already upstream, and already present in 4.18.14.

This would be upstream commit
daa07cbc9ae3da2d61b7ce900c0b9107d134f2c1 ("KVM: x86: fix L1TF's MMIO GFN 
calculation").

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Cosmic)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)
         Status: In Progress

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Cosmic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Cosmic)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Cosmic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)

** Description changed:

- A guest will hang while booting under 4.18.0-10.11 because of "kvm: x86:
- Set highest physical address bits in non-present/reserved SPTEs", which
- came in via 4.18.y.
+ [Impact]
+ A guest will hang while booting under 4.18.0-10.11 because of "kvm: x86: Set 
highest physical address bits in non-present/reserved SPTEs", which came in via 
4.18.y.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ A guest was booted after applying the patch.
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ It might break KVM on systems with different physical memory limits, which is 
just what upstream might have been testing the most.
+ 
+ ============
  
  A fix is already upstream, and already present in 4.18.14.
  
- This would be upstream commit 
+ This would be upstream commit
  daa07cbc9ae3da2d61b7ce900c0b9107d134f2c1 ("KVM: x86: fix L1TF's MMIO GFN 
calculation").

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798427

Title:
  kvm doesn't work on 36 physical bits systems

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Cosmic:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  A guest will hang while booting under 4.18.0-10.11 because of "kvm: x86: Set 
highest physical address bits in non-present/reserved SPTEs", which came in via 
4.18.y.

  [Test Case]
  A guest was booted after applying the patch.

  [Regression Potential]
  It might break KVM on systems with different physical memory limits, which is 
just what upstream might have been testing the most.

  ============

  A fix is already upstream, and already present in 4.18.14.

  This would be upstream commit
  daa07cbc9ae3da2d61b7ce900c0b9107d134f2c1 ("KVM: x86: fix L1TF's MMIO GFN 
calculation").

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