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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>, Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: clear stale x86_emulate_ctxt->intercept value
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:21:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f933f77-6924-249a-77c5-3c904e7c052b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200303143316.834912-2-vkuznets@redhat.com>

On 03/03/20 15:33, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Commit c44b4c6ab80e ("KVM: emulate: clean up initializations in
> init_decode_cache") reduced the number of fields cleared by
> init_decode_cache() claiming that they are being cleared elsewhere,
> 'intercept', however, seems to be left uncleared in some cases.
> 
> The issue I'm observing manifests itself as following:
> after commit 07721feee46b ("KVM: nVMX: Don't emulate instructions in guest
> mode") Hyper-V guests on KVM stopped booting with:
> 
>  kvm_nested_vmexit:    rip fffff802987d6169 reason EPT_VIOLATION info1 181
>     info2 0 int_info 0 int_info_err 0
>  kvm_page_fault:       address febd0000 error_code 181
>  kvm_emulate_insn:     0:fffff802987d6169: f3 a5
>  kvm_emulate_insn:     0:fffff802987d6169: f3 a5 FAIL
>  kvm_inj_exception:    #UD (0x0)

Slightly rephrased:

After commit 07721feee46b ("KVM: nVMX: Don't emulate instructions in guest
mode") Hyper-V guests on KVM stopped booting with:

 kvm_nested_vmexit:    rip fffff802987d6169 reason EPT_VIOLATION info1 181
    info2 0 int_info 0 int_info_err 0
 kvm_page_fault:       address febd0000 error_code 181
 kvm_emulate_insn:     0:fffff802987d6169: f3 a5
 kvm_emulate_insn:     0:fffff802987d6169: f3 a5 FAIL
 kvm_inj_exception:    #UD (0x0)

"f3 a5" is a "rep movsw" instruction, which should not be intercepted
at all.  Commit c44b4c6ab80e ("KVM: emulate: clean up initializations in
init_decode_cache") reduced the number of fields cleared by
init_decode_cache() claiming that they are being cleared elsewhere,
'intercept', however, is left uncleared if the instruction does not have
any of the "slow path" flags (NotImpl, Stack, Op3264, Sse, Mmx, CheckPerm,
NearBranch, No16 and of course Intercept itself).

Paolo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-03 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-03 14:33 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: avoid using " Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-03-03 14:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: clear " Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-03-03 15:42   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 16:21   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-03-03 16:35     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-03-03 16:37       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-03 14:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: remove stale comment from struct x86_emulate_ctxt Vitaly Kuznetsov

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