x86/split_lock: Don't write MSR_TEST_CTRL on CPUs that aren't whitelisted
Choo! Choo! All aboard the Split Lock Express, with direct service to Wreckage! Skip split_lock_verify_msr() if the CPU isn't whitelisted as a possible SLD-enabled CPU model to avoid writing MSR_TEST_CTRL. MSR_TEST_CTRL exists, and is writable, on many generations of CPUs. Writing the MSR, even with '0', can result in bizarre, undocumented behavior. This fixes a crash on Haswell when resuming from suspend with a live KVM guest. Because APs use the standard SMP boot flow for resume, they will go through split_lock_init() and the subsequent RDMSR/WRMSR sequence, which runs even when sld_state==sld_off to ensure SLD is disabled. On Haswell (at least, my Haswell), writing MSR_TEST_CTRL with '0' will succeed and _may_ take the SMT _sibling_ out of VMX root mode. When KVM has an active guest, KVM performs VMXON as part of CPU onlining (see kvm_starting_cpu()). Because SMP boot is serialized, the resulting flow is effectively: on_each_ap_cpu() { WRMSR(MSR_TEST_CTRL, 0) VMXON } As a result, the WRMSR can disable VMX on a different CPU that has already done VMXON. This ultimately results in a #UD on VMPTRLD when KVM regains control and attempt run its vCPUs. The above voodoo was confirmed by reworking KVM's VMXON flow to write MSR_TEST_CTRL prior to VMXON, and to serialize the sequence as above. Further verification of the insanity was done by redoing VMXON on all APs after the initial WRMSR->VMXON sequence. The additional VMXON, which should VM-Fail, occasionally succeeded, and also eliminated the unexpected #UD on VMPTRLD. The damage done by writing MSR_TEST_CTRL doesn't appear to be limited to VMX, e.g. after suspend with an active KVM guest, subsequent reboots almost always hang (even when fudging VMXON), a #UD on a random Jcc was observed, suspend/resume stability is qualitatively poor, and so on and so forth. kernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:386! CPU: 1 PID: 2592 Comm: CPU 6/KVM Tainted: G D Hardware name: ASUS Q87M-E/Q87M-E, BIOS 1102 03/03/2014 RIP: 0010:kvm_spurious_fault+0xf/0x20 Call Trace: vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs+0x1fb/0x2b0 vmx_vcpu_load+0x3e/0x160 kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x48/0x260 finish_task_switch+0x140/0x260 __schedule+0x460/0x720 _cond_resched+0x2d/0x40 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x82e/0x1ca0 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x363/0x5c0 ksys_ioctl+0x88/0xa0 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0x170 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 Fixes: dbaba470 ("x86/split_lock: Rework the initialization flow of split lock detection") Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200605192605.7439-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
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