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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Liran Alon" <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/kvm/nVMX: fix Enlightened VMCLEAR
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 18:30:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41362dc0-a4d5-93ec-848d-193a76a9bd0c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190628112333.31165-1-vkuznets@redhat.com>

On 28/06/19 13:23, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> VMCLEAR implementation for Enlightened VMCS is not entirely correct
> when something else than the currently active eVMCS on the calling vCPU
> is targeted. In case there's no currently active eVMCS on the calling vCPU
> we are corrupting the targeted area by writing to the non-existent
> launch_state field.
> 
> Fix the logic by always treating the targeted area as 'enlightened' in case
> Enlightened VMEntry is enabled on the calling vCPU.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - 'evmcs_vmptr' -> 'evmcs_gpa' [Paolo Bonzini]
> - avoid nested_release_evmcs() in handle_vmclear even for the currently
>   active eVMCS on the calling vCPU [Liran Alon], PATCH1 added to support
>   the change.
> 
> Vitaly Kuznetsov (2):
>   x86/KVM/nVMX: don't use clean fields data on enlightened VMLAUNCH
>   x86/kvm/nVMX: fix VMCLEAR when Enlightened VMCS is in use
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/evmcs.c  | 18 ++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/evmcs.h  |  1 +
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-02 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-28 11:23 Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-06-28 11:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/KVM/nVMX: don't use clean fields data on enlightened VMLAUNCH Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-06-28 11:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/kvm/nVMX: fix VMCLEAR when Enlightened VMCS is in use Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-07-02 16:30 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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