From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86/mmu: nEPT X-only unsync bug fix
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 09:31:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220520133115.3319985-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220513195000.99371-1-seanjc@google.com>
Queued, thanks. Here is the new message for patch 1:
All of sync_page()'s existing checks filter out only !PRESENT gPTE,
because without execute-only, all upper levels are guaranteed to be at
least READABLE. However, if EPT with execute-only support is in use by
L1, KVM can create an SPTE that is shadow-present but guest-inaccessible
(RWX=0) if the upper level combined permissions are R (or RW) and
the leaf EPTE is changed from R (or RW) to X. Because the EPTE is
considered present when viewed in isolation, and no reserved bits are set,
FNAME(prefetch_invalid_gpte) will consider the GPTE valid, and cause a
not-present SPTE to be created.
The SPTE is "correct": the guest translation is inaccessible because
the combined protections of all levels yield RWX=0, and KVM will just
redirect any vmexits to the guest. If EPT A/D bits are disabled, KVM
can mistake the SPTE for an access-tracked SPTE, but again such confusion
isn't fatal, as the "saved" protections are also RWX=0. However,
creating a useless SPTE in general means that KVM messed up something,
even if this particular goof didn't manifest as a functional bug.
So, drop SPTEs whose new protections will yield a RWX=0 SPTE, and
add a WARN in make_spte() to detect creation of SPTEs that will
result in RWX=0 protections.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-20 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-13 19:49 Sean Christopherson
2022-05-13 19:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Drop RWX=0 SPTEs during ept_sync_page() Sean Christopherson
2022-05-13 20:54 ` David Matlack
2022-05-14 0:55 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-05-16 22:22 ` David Matlack
2022-05-17 3:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-05-13 19:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Comment FNAME(sync_page) to document TLB flushing logic Sean Christopherson
2022-05-13 20:27 ` Jim Mattson
2022-05-20 13:31 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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