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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	 Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6.y 02/20] KVM: SVM: Set RFLAGS.IF=1 in C code, to get VMRUN out of the STI shadow
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:25:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250815002540.2375664-3-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250815002540.2375664-1-seanjc@google.com>

[ Upstream commit be45bc4eff33d9a7dae84a2150f242a91a617402 ]

Enable/disable local IRQs, i.e. set/clear RFLAGS.IF, in the common
svm_vcpu_enter_exit() just after/before guest_state_{enter,exit}_irqoff()
so that VMRUN is not executed in an STI shadow.  AMD CPUs have a quirk
(some would say "bug"), where the STI shadow bleeds into the guest's
intr_state field if a #VMEXIT occurs during injection of an event, i.e. if
the VMRUN doesn't complete before the subsequent #VMEXIT.

The spurious "interrupts masked" state is relatively benign, as it only
occurs during event injection and is transient.  Because KVM is already
injecting an event, the guest can't be in HLT, and if KVM is querying IRQ
blocking for injection, then KVM would need to force an immediate exit
anyways since injecting multiple events is impossible.

However, because KVM copies int_state verbatim from vmcb02 to vmcb12, the
spurious STI shadow is visible to L1 when running a nested VM, which can
trip sanity checks, e.g. in VMware's VMM.

Hoist the STI+CLI all the way to C code, as the aforementioned calls to
guest_state_{enter,exit}_irqoff() already inform lockdep that IRQs are
enabled/disabled, and taking a fault on VMRUN with RFLAGS.IF=1 is already
possible.  I.e. if there's kernel code that is confused by running with
RFLAGS.IF=1, then it's already a problem.  In practice, since GIF=0 also
blocks NMIs, the only change in exposure to non-KVM code (relative to
surrounding VMRUN with STI+CLI) is exception handling code, and except for
the kvm_rebooting=1 case, all exception in the core VM-Enter/VM-Exit path
are fatal.

Use the "raw" variants to enable/disable IRQs to avoid tracing in the
"no instrumentation" code; the guest state helpers also take care of
tracing IRQ state.

Oppurtunstically document why KVM needs to do STI in the first place.

Reported-by: Doug Covelli <doug.covelli@broadcom.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CADH9ctBs1YPmE4aCfGPNBwA10cA8RuAk2gO7542DjMZgs4uzJQ@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: f14eec0a3203 ("KVM: SVM: move more vmentry code to assembly")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224165442.2338294-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[sean: resolve minor syntatic conflict in __svm_sev_es_vcpu_run()]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c     | 14 ++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/vmenter.S |  9 +--------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 86c50747e158..abbb84ddfe02 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -4170,6 +4170,18 @@ static noinstr void svm_vcpu_enter_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool spec_ctrl_in
 
 	guest_state_enter_irqoff();
 
+	/*
+	 * Set RFLAGS.IF prior to VMRUN, as the host's RFLAGS.IF at the time of
+	 * VMRUN controls whether or not physical IRQs are masked (KVM always
+	 * runs with V_INTR_MASKING_MASK).  Toggle RFLAGS.IF here to avoid the
+	 * temptation to do STI+VMRUN+CLI, as AMD CPUs bleed the STI shadow
+	 * into guest state if delivery of an event during VMRUN triggers a
+	 * #VMEXIT, and the guest_state transitions already tell lockdep that
+	 * IRQs are being enabled/disabled.  Note!  GIF=0 for the entirety of
+	 * this path, so IRQs aren't actually unmasked while running host code.
+	 */
+	raw_local_irq_enable();
+
 	amd_clear_divider();
 
 	if (sev_es_guest(vcpu->kvm))
@@ -4177,6 +4189,8 @@ static noinstr void svm_vcpu_enter_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool spec_ctrl_in
 	else
 		__svm_vcpu_run(svm, spec_ctrl_intercepted);
 
+	raw_local_irq_disable();
+
 	guest_state_exit_irqoff();
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/vmenter.S b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/vmenter.S
index 56fe34d9397f..81ecb9e1101d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/vmenter.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/vmenter.S
@@ -171,12 +171,8 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__svm_vcpu_run)
 	VM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS
 
 	/* Enter guest mode */
-	sti
-
 3:	vmrun %_ASM_AX
 4:
-	cli
-
 	/* Pop @svm to RAX while it's the only available register. */
 	pop %_ASM_AX
 
@@ -341,11 +337,8 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__svm_sev_es_vcpu_run)
 	VM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS
 
 	/* Enter guest mode */
-	sti
-
 1:	vmrun %_ASM_AX
-
-2:	cli
+2:
 
 	/* Pop @svm to RDI, guest registers have been saved already. */
 	pop %_ASM_DI
-- 
2.51.0.rc1.163.g2494970778-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-15  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-15  0:25 [PATCH 6.6.y 00/20] KVM: x86: Backports for 6.6.y Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 01/20] KVM: x86/hyper-v: Skip non-canonical addresses during PV TLB flush Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 03/20] KVM: x86: Plumb in the vCPU to kvm_x86_ops.hwapic_isr_update() Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 04/20] KVM: nVMX: Defer SVI update to vmcs01 on EOI when L2 is active w/o VID Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 05/20] KVM: x86: Take irqfds.lock when adding/deleting IRQ bypass producer Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 06/20] KVM: x86: Snapshot the host's DEBUGCTL in common x86 Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 07/20] KVM: x86: Snapshot the host's DEBUGCTL after disabling IRQs Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 08/20] KVM: x86: Plumb "force_immediate_exit" into kvm_entry() tracepoint Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 09/20] KVM: VMX: Re-enter guest in fastpath for "spurious" preemption timer exits Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 10/20] KVM: VMX: Handle forced exit due to preemption timer in fastpath Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 11/20] KVM: x86: Move handling of is_guest_mode() into fastpath exit handlers Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 12/20] KVM: VMX: Handle KVM-induced preemption timer exits in fastpath for L2 Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 13/20] KVM: x86: Fully defer to vendor code to decide how to force immediate exit Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 14/20] KVM: x86: Convert vcpu_run()'s immediate exit param into a generic bitmap Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 15/20] KVM: x86: Drop kvm_x86_ops.set_dr6() in favor of a new KVM_RUN flag Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 16/20] KVM: VMX: Allow guest to set DEBUGCTL.RTM_DEBUG if RTM is supported Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 17/20] KVM: VMX: Extract checking of guest's DEBUGCTL into helper Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 18/20] KVM: nVMX: Check vmcs12->guest_ia32_debugctl on nested VM-Enter Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 19/20] KVM: VMX: Wrap all accesses to IA32_DEBUGCTL with getter/setter APIs Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15  0:25 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 20/20] KVM: VMX: Preserve host's DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM while running the guest Sean Christopherson

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