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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: x86: disable KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:22:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170816112249.28939-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)

Microsoft pointed out privately to me that KVM's handling of
KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS is invalid.  Using skip_emulation_instruction is invalid
in EPT misconfiguration vmexit handlers, because neither EPT violations
nor misconfigurations are listed in the manual among the VM exits that
set the VM-exit instruction length field.

While physical processors seem to set the field, this is not architectural
and is just a side effect of the implementation.  I couldn't convince
myself of any condition on the exit qualification where VM-exit
instruction length "has" to be defined; there are no trap-like VM-exits
that can be repurposed; and fault-like VM-exits such as descriptor-table
exits provide no decoding information.  So I don't really see any elegant
way to fix it except by disabling KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS, which means virtio
1 will go slower.

Adding a hypercall or MSR write that does a fast MMIO write to a physical
address would do it, but it adds hypervisor knowledge in virtio, including
CPUID handling.  So it would be pretty ugly in the guest-side implementation,
but if somebody wants to do it and the virtio side is acceptable to the
virtio maintainers, I am okay with it.

Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 68c3b4d1676d870f0453c31d5a52e7e65c7448ae
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 375dca24cf42..b3eaeb20670d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -6320,11 +6320,6 @@ static int handle_ept_misconfig(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	gpa_t gpa;
 
 	gpa = vmcs_read64(GUEST_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS);
-	if (!kvm_io_bus_write(vcpu, KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS, gpa, 0, NULL)) {
-		trace_kvm_fast_mmio(gpa);
-		return kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
-	}
-
 	ret = handle_mmio_page_fault(vcpu, gpa, true);
 	vcpu->arch.gpa_available = true;
 	if (likely(ret == RET_MMIO_PF_EMULATE))
-- 
2.13.5

             reply	other threads:[~2017-08-16 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-16 11:22 Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-08-16 12:07 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-08-16 13:37   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 14:06     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 14:17       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-17  8:15   ` David Hildenbrand
2017-08-16 12:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 13:05   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 13:16     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 13:30       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 14:03         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 16:50         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 17:19           ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 19:03             ` Radim Krčmář
2017-08-16 19:59               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 21:25                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-16 22:31                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-17  9:00                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-17 12:14                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-17 13:23                         ` Radim Krčmář
2017-08-17 15:15                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-17 13:51                     ` Radim Krčmář
2017-08-17 15:27                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-16 19:47             ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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