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    KVM: X86: Restart the guest when insn_len is zero and SEV is enabled · 00b10fe1
    Brijesh Singh authored
    On AMD platforms, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF.
    This can happen if a guest gets a page-fault on data access but the HW
    table walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instruction
    page is not present in memory).
    
    Typically, when insn_len is zero, x86_emulate_instruction() walks the
    guest page table and fetches the instruction bytes from guest memory.
    When SEV is enabled, the guest memory is encrypted with guest-specific
    key hence hypervisor will not able to fetch the instruction bytes.
    In those cases we simply restart the guest.
    
    I have encountered this issue when running kernbench inside the guest.
    
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
    Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
    Cc: x86@kernel.org
    Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
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