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    • Sean Christopherson's avatar
      KVM: x86/mmu: WARN if root_hpa is invalid when handling a page fault · 6948199a
      Sean Christopherson authored 
      WARN if root_hpa is invalid when handling a page fault.  The check on
root_hpa exists for historical reasons that no longer apply to the
current KVM code base.

Remove an equivalent debug-only warning in direct_page_fault(), whose
existence more or less confirms that root_hpa should always be valid
when handling a page fault.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      6948199a
    • Sean Christopherson's avatar
      KVM: x86/mmu: WARN on an invalid root_hpa · 0c7a98e3
      Sean Christopherson authored 
      WARN on the existing invalid root_hpa checks in __direct_map() and
FNAME(fetch).  The "legitimate" path that invalidated root_hpa in the
middle of a page fault is long since gone, i.e. it should no longer be
impossible to invalidate in the middle of a page fault[*].

The root_hpa checks were added by two related commits

  989c6b34 ("KVM: MMU: handle invalid root_hpa at __direct_map")
  37f6a4e2 ("KVM: x86: handle invalid root_hpa everywhere")

to fix a bug where nested_vmx_vmexit() could be called *in the middle*
of a page fault.  At the time, vmx_interrupt_allowed(), which was and
still is used by kvm_can_do_async_pf() via ->interrupt_allowed(),
directly invoked nested_vmx_vmexit() to switch from L2 to L1 to emulate
a VM-Exit on a pending interrupt.  Emulating the nested VM-Exit resulted
in root_hpa being invalidated by kvm_mmu_reset_context() without
explicitly terminating the page fault.

Now that root_hpa is checked for validity by kvm_mmu_page_fault(), WARN
on an invalid root_hpa to detect any flows that reset the MMU while
handling a page fault.  The broken vmx_interrupt_allowed() behavior has
long since been fixed and resetting the MMU during a page fault should
not be considered legal behavior.

[*] It's actually technically possible in FNAME(page_fault)() because it
    calls inject_page_fault() when the guest translation is invalid, but
    in that case the page fault handling is immediately terminated.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      0c7a98e3
    • Sean Christopherson's avatar
      KVM: x86/mmu: Move root_hpa validity checks to top of page fault handler · ddce6208
      Sean Christopherson authored 
      Add a check on root_hpa at the beginning of the page fault handler to
consolidate several checks on root_hpa that are scattered throughout the
page fault code.  This is a preparatory step towards eventually removing
such checks altogether, or at the very least WARNing if an invalid root
is encountered.  Remove only the checks that can be easily audited to
confirm that root_hpa cannot be invalidated between their current
location and the new check in kvm_mmu_page_fault(), and aren't currently
protected by mmu_lock, i.e. keep the checks in __direct_map() and
FNAME(fetch) for the time being.

The root_hpa checks that are consolidate were all added by commit

  37f6a4e2 ("KVM: x86: handle invalid root_hpa everywhere")

which was a follow up to a bug fix for __direct_map(), commit

  989c6b34 ("KVM: MMU: handle invalid root_hpa at __direct_map")

At the time, nested VMX had, in hindsight, crazy handling of nested
interrupts and would trigger a nested VM-Exit in ->interrupt_allowed(),
and thus unexpectedly reset the MMU in flows such as can_do_async_pf().

Now that the wonky nested VM-Exit behavior is gone, the root_hpa checks
are bogus and confusing, e.g. it's not at all obvious what they actually
protect against, and at first glance they appear to be broken since many
of them run without holding mmu_lock.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      ddce6208
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