- 24 Sep, 2019 40 commits
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Marc Orr authored
Allowing an unlimited number of MSRs to be specified via the VMX load/store MSR lists (e.g., vm-entry MSR load list) is bad for two reasons. First, a guest can specify an unreasonable number of MSRs, forcing KVM to process all of them in software. Second, the SDM bounds the number of MSRs allowed to be packed into the atomic switch MSR lists. Quoting the "Miscellaneous Data" section in the "VMX Capability Reporting Facility" appendix: "Bits 27:25 is used to compute the recommended maximum number of MSRs that should appear in the VM-exit MSR-store list, the VM-exit MSR-load list, or the VM-entry MSR-load list. Specifically, if the value bits 27:25 of IA32_VMX_MISC is N, then 512 * (N + 1) is the recommended maximum number of MSRs to be included in each list. If the limit is exceeded, undefined processor behavior may result (including a machine check during the VMX transition)." Because KVM needs to protect itself and can't model "undefined processor behavior", arbitrarily force a VM-entry to fail due to MSR loading when the MSR load list is too large. Similarly, trigger an abort during a VM exit that encounters an MSR load list or MSR store list that is too large. The MSR list size is intentionally not pre-checked so as to maintain compatibility with hardware inasmuch as possible. Test these new checks with the kvm-unit-test "x86: nvmx: test max atomic switch MSRs". Suggested-by:
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Peter Shier <pshier@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Marc Orr <marcorr@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Jim Mattson authored
The RDPRU instruction gives the guest read access to the IA32_APERF MSR and the IA32_MPERF MSR. According to volume 3 of the APM, "When virtualization is enabled, this instruction can be intercepted by the Hypervisor. The intercept bit is at VMCB byte offset 10h, bit 14." Since we don't enumerate the instruction in KVM_SUPPORTED_CPUID, intercept it and synthesize #UD. Signed-off-by:
Drew Schmitt <dasch@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Jacob Xu <jacobhxu@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jim Mattson authored
According to the Intel SDM, volume 2, "CPUID," the index is significant (or partially significant) for CPUID leaves 0FH, 10H, 12H, 17H, 18H, and 1FH. Add the corresponding flag to these CPUID leaves in do_host_cpuid(). Signed-off-by:
Steve Rutherford <srutherford@google.com> Fixes: a87f2d3a ("KVM: x86: Add Intel CPUID.1F cpuid emulation support") Reviewed-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Do not skip invalid shadow pages when zapping obsolete pages if the pages' root_count has reached zero, in which case the page can be immediately zapped and freed. Update the comment accordingly. Signed-off-by:
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Toggle mmu_valid_gen between '0' and '1' instead of blindly incrementing the generation. Because slots_lock is held for the entire duration of zapping obsolete pages, it's impossible for there to be multiple invalid generations associated with shadow pages at any given time. Toggling between the two generations (valid vs. invalid) allows changing mmu_valid_gen from an unsigned long to a u8, which reduces the size of struct kvm_mmu_page from 160 to 152 bytes on 64-bit KVM, i.e. reduces KVM's memory footprint by 8 bytes per shadow page. Set sp->mmu_valid_gen before it is added to active_mmu_pages. Functionally this has no effect as kvm_mmu_alloc_page() has a single caller that sets sp->mmu_valid_gen soon thereafter, but visually it is jarring to see a shadow page being added to the list without its mmu_valid_gen first being set. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Now that the fast invalidate mechanism has been reintroduced, restore the performance tweaks for fast invalidation that existed prior to its removal. Paraphrasing the original changelog (commit 5ff05683 was itself a partial revert): Don't force reloading the remote mmu when zapping an obsolete page, as a MMU_RELOAD request has already been issued by kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast() immediately after incrementing mmu_valid_gen, i.e. after marking pages obsolete. This reverts commit 5ff05683. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Now that the fast invalidate mechanism has been reintroduced, restore the performance tweaks for fast invalidation that existed prior to its removal. Paraphrashing the original changelog: Introduce a per-VM list to track obsolete shadow pages, i.e. pages which have been deleted from the mmu cache but haven't yet been freed. When page reclaiming is needed, zap/free the deleted pages first. This reverts commit 52d5dedc. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Now that the fast invalidate mechanism has been reintroduced, restore the performance tweaks for fast invalidation that existed prior to its removal. Paraphrashing the original changelog: Reload the mmu on all vCPUs after updating the generation number so that obsolete pages are not used by any vCPUs. This allows collapsing all TLB flushes during obsolete page zapping into a single flush, as there is no need to flush when dropping mmu_lock (to reschedule). Note: a remote TLB flush is still needed before freeing the pages as other vCPUs may be doing a lockless shadow page walk. Opportunstically improve the comments restored by the revert (the code itself is a true revert). This reverts commit f34d251d. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Now that the fast invalidate mechanism has been reintroduced, restore the performance tweaks for fast invalidation that existed prior to its removal. Paraphrashing the original changelog: Zap at least 10 shadow pages before releasing mmu_lock to reduce the overhead associated with re-acquiring the lock. Note: "10" is an arbitrary number, speculated to be high enough so that a vCPU isn't stuck zapping obsolete pages for an extended period, but small enough so that other vCPUs aren't starved waiting for mmu_lock. This reverts commit 43d2b14b. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Now that the fast invalidate mechanism has been reintroduced, restore the tracepoint associated with said mechanism. Note, the name of the tracepoint deviates from the original tracepoint so as to match KVM's current nomenclature. This reverts commit 42560fb1. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Now that the fast invalidate mechanism has been reintroduced, restore tracing of the generation number in shadow page tracepoints. This reverts commit b59c4830. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Use the fast invalidate mechasim to zap MMIO sptes on a MMIO generation wrap. The fast invalidate flow was reintroduced to fix a livelock bug in kvm_mmu_zap_all() that can occur if kvm_mmu_zap_all() is invoked when the guest has live vCPUs. I.e. using kvm_mmu_zap_all() to handle the MMIO generation wrap is theoretically susceptible to the livelock bug. This effectively reverts commit 4771450c ("Revert "KVM: MMU: drop kvm_mmu_zap_mmio_sptes""), i.e. restores the behavior of commit a8eca9dc ("KVM: MMU: drop kvm_mmu_zap_mmio_sptes"). Note, this actually fixes commit 571c5af0 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Voluntarily reschedule as needed when zapping MMIO sptes"), but there is no need to incrementally revert back to using fast invalidate, e.g. doing so doesn't provide any bisection or stability benefits. Fixes: 571c5af0 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Voluntarily reschedule as needed when zapping MMIO sptes") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Treat invalid shadow pages as obsolete to fix a bug where an obsolete and invalid page with a non-zero root count could become non-obsolete due to mmu_valid_gen wrapping. The bug is largely theoretical with the current code base, as an unsigned long will effectively never wrap on 64-bit KVM, and userspace would have to deliberately stall a vCPU in order to keep an obsolete invalid page on the active list while simultaneously modifying memslots billions of times to trigger a wrap. The obvious alternative is to use a 64-bit value for mmu_valid_gen, but it's actually desirable to go in the opposite direction, i.e. using a smaller 8-bit value to reduce KVM's memory footprint by 8 bytes per shadow page, and relying on proper treatment of invalid pages instead of preventing the generation from wrapping. Note, "Fixes" points at a commit that was at one point reverted, but has since been restored. Fixes: 5304b8d3 ("KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all pages") Signed-off-by:
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Wanpeng Li authored
Filter out drastic fluctuation and random fluctuation, remove timer_advance_adjust_done altogether, the adjustment would be continuous. Signed-off-by:
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tao Xu authored
As the latest Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, UMWAIT and TPAUSE instructions cause a VM exit if the RDTSC exiting and enable user wait and pause VM-execution controls are both 1. Because KVM never enable RDTSC exiting, the vm-exit for UMWAIT and TPAUSE should never happen. Considering EXIT_REASON_XSAVES and EXIT_REASON_XRSTORS is also unexpected VM-exit for KVM. Introduce a common exit helper handle_unexpected_vmexit() to handle these unexpected VM-exit. Suggested-by:
Jingqi Liu <jingqi.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Tao Xu <tao3.xu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tao Xu authored
UMWAIT and TPAUSE instructions use 32bit IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL at MSR index E1H to determines the maximum time in TSC-quanta that the processor can reside in either C0.1 or C0.2. This patch emulates MSR IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL in guest and differentiate IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL between host and guest. The variable mwait_control_cached in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/umwait.c caches the MSR value, so this patch uses it to avoid frequently rdmsr of IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL. Co-developed-by:
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Tao Xu authored
UMONITOR, UMWAIT and TPAUSE are a set of user wait instructions. This patch adds support for user wait instructions in KVM. Availability of the user wait instructions is indicated by the presence of the CPUID feature flag WAITPKG CPUID.0x07.0x0:ECX[5]. User wait instructions may be executed at any privilege level, and use 32bit IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL MSR to set the maximum time. The behavior of user wait instructions in VMX non-root operation is determined first by the setting of the "enable user wait and pause" secondary processor-based VM-execution control bit 26. If the VM-execution control is 0, UMONITOR/UMWAIT/TPAUSE cause an invalid-opcode exception (#UD). If the VM-execution control is 1, treatment is based on the setting of the “RDTSC exiting†VM-execution control. Because KVM never enables RDTSC exiting, if the instruction causes a delay, the amount of time delayed is called here the physical delay. The physical delay is first computed by determining the virtual delay. If IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL[31:2] is zero, the virtual delay is the value in EDX:EAX minus the value that RDTSC would return; if IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL[31:2] is not zero, the virtual delay is the minimum of that difference and AND(IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL,FFFFFFFCH). Because umwait and tpause can put a (psysical) CPU into a power saving state, by default we dont't expose it to kvm and enable it only when guest CPUID has it. Detailed information about user wait instructions can be found in the latest Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual. Co-developed-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Document the intended usage of each emulation type as each exists to handle an edge case of one kind or another and can be easily misinterpreted at first glance. Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
VMX's EPT misconfig flow to handle fast-MMIO path falls back to decoding the instruction to determine the instruction length when running as a guest (Hyper-V doesn't fill VMCS.VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN because it's technically not defined for EPT misconfigs). Rather than implement the slow skip in VMX's generic skip_emulated_instruction(), handle_ept_misconfig() directly calls kvm_emulate_instruction() with EMULTYPE_SKIP, which intentionally doesn't do single-step detection, and so handle_ept_misconfig() misses a single-step #DB. Rework the EPT misconfig fallback case to route it through kvm_skip_emulated_instruction() so that single-step #DBs and interrupt shadow updates are handled automatically. I.e. make VMX's slow skip logic match SVM's and have the SVM flow not intentionally avoid the shadow update. Alternatively, the handle_ept_misconfig() could manually handle single- step detection, but that results in EMULTYPE_SKIP having split logic for the interrupt shadow vs. single-step #DBs, and split emulator logic is largely what led to this mess in the first place. Modifying SVM to mirror VMX flow isn't really an option as SVM's case isn't limited to a specific exit reason, i.e. handling the slow skip in skip_emulated_instruction() is mandatory for all intents and purposes. Drop VMX's skip_emulated_instruction() wrapper since it can now fail, and instead WARN if it fails unexpectedly, e.g. if exit_reason somehow becomes corrupted. Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Fixes: d391f120 ("x86/kvm/vmx: do not use vm-exit instruction length for fast MMIO when running nested") Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Deferring emulation failure handling (in some cases) to the caller of x86_emulate_instruction() has proven fragile, e.g. multiple instances of KVM not setting run->exit_reason on EMULATE_FAIL, largely due to it being difficult to discern what emulation types can return what result, and which combination of types and results are handled where. Now that x86_emulate_instruction() always handles emulation failure, i.e. EMULATION_FAIL is only referenced in callers, remove the emulation_result enums entirely. Per KVM's existing exit handling conventions, return '0' and '1' for "exit to userspace" and "resume guest" respectively. Doing so cleans up many callers, e.g. they can return kvm_emulate_instruction() directly instead of having to interpret its result. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Now that EMULATE_FAIL is completely unused, remove the last remaning usage where KVM does something functional in response to EMULATE_FAIL. Leave the check in place as a WARN_ON_ONCE to provide a better paper trail when EMULATE_{DONE,FAIL,USER_EXIT} are completely removed. Opportunistically remove the gotos in handle_invalid_guest_state(). With the EMULATE_FAIL handling gone there is no need to have a common handler for emulation failure and the gotos only complicate things, e.g. the signal_pending() check always returns '1', but this is far from obvious when glancing through the code. Signed-off-by: -
Sean Christopherson authored
Request triple fault in kvm_inject_realmode_interrupt() instead of returning EMULATE_FAIL and deferring to the caller. All existing callers request triple fault and it's highly unlikely Real Mode is going to acquire new features. While this consolidates a small amount of code, the real goal is to remove the last reference to EMULATE_FAIL. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Consolidate the reporting of emulation failure into kvm_task_switch() so that it can return EMULATE_USER_EXIT. This helps pave the way for removing EMULATE_FAIL altogether. This also fixes a theoretical bug where task switch interception could suppress an EMULATE_USER_EXIT return. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Kill a few birds with one stone by forcing an exit to userspace on skip emulation failure. This removes a reference to EMULATE_FAIL, fixes a bug in handle_ept_misconfig() where it would exit to userspace without setting run->exit_reason, and fixes a theoretical bug in SVM's task_switch_interception() where it would overwrite run->exit_reason on a return of EMULATE_USER_EXIT. Note, this technically doesn't fully fix task_switch_interception() as it now incorrectly handles EMULATE_FAIL, but in practice there is no bug as EMULATE_FAIL will never be returned for EMULTYPE_SKIP. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Immediately inject a #UD and return EMULATE done if emulation fails when handling an intercepted #UD. This helps pave the way for removing EMULATE_FAIL altogether. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Add an explicit emulation type for forced #UD emulation and use it to detect that KVM should unconditionally inject a #UD instead of falling into its standard emulation failure handling. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Immediately inject a #GP when VMware emulation fails and return EMULATE_DONE instead of propagating EMULATE_FAIL up the stack. This helps pave the way for removing EMULATE_FAIL altogether. Rename EMULTYPE_VMWARE to EMULTYPE_VMWARE_GP to document that the x86 emulator is called to handle VMware #GP interception, e.g. why a #GP is injected on emulation failure for EMULTYPE_VMWARE_GP. Drop EMULTYPE_NO_UD_ON_FAIL as a standalone type. The "no #UD on fail" is used only in the VMWare case and is obsoleted by having the emulator itself reinject #GP. Signed-off-by:
Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
The VMware backdoor hooks #GP faults on IN{S}, OUT{S}, and RDPMC, none of which generate a non-zero error code for their #GP. Re-injecting #GP instead of attempting emulation on a non-zero error code will allow a future patch to move #GP injection (for emulation failure) into kvm_emulate_instruction() without having to plumb in the error code. Reviewed-and-tested-by:Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Return the single-step emulation result directly instead of via an out param. Presumably at some point in the past kvm_vcpu_do_singlestep() could be called with *r==EMULATE_USER_EXIT, but that is no longer the case, i.e. all callers are happy to overwrite their own return variable. Reviewed-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
When handling emulation failure, return the emulation result directly instead of capturing it in a local variable. Future patches will move additional cases into handle_emulation_failure(), clean up the cruft before so there isn't an ugly mix of setting a local variable and returning directly. Reviewed-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Move the stat.mmio_exits update into x86_emulate_instruction(). This is both a bug fix, e.g. the current update flows will incorrectly increment mmio_exits on emulation failure, and a preparatory change to set the stage for eliminating EMULATE_DONE and company. Reviewed-by:
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Krish Sadhukhan authored
According to section "Checks Related to Address-Space Size" in Intel SDM vol 3C, the following checks are performed on vmentry of nested guests: If the logical processor is outside IA-32e mode (if IA32_EFER.LMA = 0) at the time of VM entry, the following must hold: - The "IA-32e mode guest" VM-entry control is 0. - The "host address-space size" VM-exit control is 0. If the logical processor is in IA-32e mode (if IA32_EFER.LMA = 1) at the time of VM entry, the "host address-space size" VM-exit control must be 1. If the "host address-space size" VM-exit control is 0, the following must hold: - The "IA-32e mode guest" VM-entry control is 0. - Bit 17 of the CR4 field (corresponding to CR4.PCIDE) is 0. - Bits 63:32 in the RIP field are 0. If the "host address-space size" VM-exit control is 1, the following must hold: - Bit 5 of the CR4 field (corresponding to CR4.PAE) is 1. - The RIP field contains a canonical address. On processors that do not support Intel 64 architecture, checks are performed to ensure that the "IA-32e mode guest" VM-entry control and the "host address-space size" VM-exit control are both 0. Signed-off-by:Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vitaly Kuznetsov authored
The bit is supposed to be '1' when SMT is not supported or forcefully disabled and '0' otherwise. Signed-off-by:
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Vitaly Kuznetsov authored
Hyper-V 2019 doesn't expose MD_CLEAR CPUID bit to guests when it cannot guarantee that two virtual processors won't end up running on sibling SMT threads without knowing about it. This is done as an optimization as in this case there is nothing the guest can do to protect itself against MDS and issuing additional flush requests is just pointless. On bare metal the topology is known, however, when Hyper-V is running nested (e.g. on top of KVM) it needs an additional piece of information: a confirmation that the exposed topology (wrt vCPU placement on different SMT threads) is trustworthy. NoNonArchitecturalCoreSharing (CPUID 0x40000004 EAX bit 18) is described in TLFS as follows: "Indicates that a virtual processor will never share a physical core with another virtual processor, except for virtual processors that are reported as sibling SMT threads." From KVM we can give such guarantee in two cases: - SMT is unsupported or forcefully disabled (just 'disabled' doesn't work as it can become re-enabled during the lifetime of the guest). - vCPUs are properly pinned so the scheduler won't put them on sibling SMT threads (when they're not reported as such). This patch reports NoNonArchitecturalCoreSharing bit in to userspace in the first case. The second case is outside of KVM's domain of responsibility (as vCPU pinning is actually done by someone who manages KVM's userspace - e.g. libvirt pinning QEMU threads). Signed-off-by:
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Vitaly Kuznetsov authored
KVM needs to know if SMT is theoretically possible, this means it is supported and not forcefully disabled ('nosmt=force'). Create and export cpu_smt_possible() answering this question. Signed-off-by: -
Wanpeng Li authored
Reported by syzkaller: kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN RIP: 0010:__apic_accept_irq+0x46/0x740 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:1029 Call Trace: kvm_apic_set_irq+0xb4/0x140 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:558 stimer_notify_direct arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c:648 [inline] stimer_expiration arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c:659 [inline] kvm_hv_process_stimers+0x594/0x1650 arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c:686 vcpu_enter_guest+0x2b2a/0x54b0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7896 vcpu_run+0x393/0xd40 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:8152 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x636/0x900 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:8360 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x6cf/0xaf0 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2765 The testcase programs HV_X64_MSR_STIMERn_CONFIG/HV_X64_MSR_STIMERn_COUNT, in addition, there is no lapic in the kernel, the counters value are small enough in order that kvm_hv_process_stimers() inject this already-expired timer interrupt into the guest through lapic in the kernel which triggers the NULL deferencing. This patch fixes it by don't advertise direct mode synthetic timers and discarding the inject when lapic is not in kernel. syzkaller source: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=1752fe0a600000 Reported-by: syzbot+dff25ee91f0c7d5c1695@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
Zapping collapsible sptes, a.k.a. 4k sptes that can be promoted into a large page, is only necessary when changing only the dirty logging flag of a memory region. If the memslot is also being moved, then all sptes for the memslot are zapped when it is invalidated. When a memslot is being created, it is impossible for there to be existing dirty mappings, e.g. KVM can have MMIO sptes, but not present, and thus dirty, sptes. Note, the comment and logic are shamelessly borrowed from MIPS's version of kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(). Fixes: 3ea3b7fa ("kvm: mmu: lazy collapse small sptes into large sptes") Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
Remove the duplication code in run_test() of dirty_log_test because after some reordering of functions now we can directly use the outcome of vm_create(). Meanwhile, with the new VM_MODE_PXXV48_4K, we can safely revert b442324b too where we stick the x86_64 PA width to 39 bits for dirty_log_test. Reviewed-by:
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
The naming VM_MODE_P52V48_4K is explicit but unclear when used on x86_64 machines, because x86_64 machines are having various physical address width rather than some static values. Here's some examples: - Intel Xeon E3-1220: 36 bits - Intel Core i7-8650: 39 bits - AMD EPYC 7251: 48 bits All of them are using 48 bits linear address width but with totally different physical address width (and most of the old machines should be less than 52 bits). Let's create a new guest mode called VM_MODE_PXXV48_4K for current x86_64 tests and make it as the default to replace the old naming of VM_MODE_P52V48_4K because it shows more clearly that the PA width is not really a constant. Meanwhile we also stop assuming all the x86 machines are having 52 bits PA width but instead we fetch the real vm->pa_bits from CPUID 0x80000008 during runtime. We currently make this exclusively used by x86_64 but no other arch. As a slight touch up, moving DEBUG macro from dirty_log_test.c to kvm_util.h so lib can use it too. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Xu authored
Since we've just removed the dependency of vm type in previous patch, now we can create the vm much earlier. Note that to move it earlier we used an approximation of number of extra pages but it should be fine. This prepares for the follow up patches to finally remove the duplication of guest mode parsings. Reviewed-by:
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