Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] KVM: VMX: Make CR0.WP a guest owned bit

[Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>]

On 30.03.23 22:33, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Duh, this is likely a KVM bug.  I expect the issue will go away if you revert
> 
>   fb509f76acc8 ("KVM: VMX: Make CR0.WP a guest owned bit")
> 
> KVM doesn't consume CR0.WP for _its_ MMU, but it does consume CR0.WP for the
> guest walker.  By passing through CR0.WP, toggling only CR0.WP will not trap
> (obviously) and thus won't run through kvm_post_set_cr0(), thus resulting in stle
> information due to not invoking kvm_init_mmu().

That reasoning sounds familiar ;)

> 
> I'm preetty sure I even called that we needed to refresh the permissions, but then
> obviously forgot to actually make that happen.

:(

> 
> I believe this will remedy the issue.  If it does, I'll post a proper patch
> (likely won't be until next week).  Compile tested only.
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h     |  8 +++++++-
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> index 89f532516a45..4a303aa735dd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> @@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ void kvm_init_shadow_ept_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool execonly,
>  bool kvm_can_do_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>  int kvm_handle_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 error_code,
>  				u64 fault_address, char *insn, int insn_len);
> +void kvm_mmu_refresh_passthrough_bits(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu *mmu);
>  
>  int kvm_mmu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>  void kvm_mmu_unload(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> @@ -184,8 +185,13 @@ static inline u8 permission_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu *mmu,
>  	u64 implicit_access = access & PFERR_IMPLICIT_ACCESS;
>  	bool not_smap = ((rflags & X86_EFLAGS_AC) | implicit_access) == X86_EFLAGS_AC;
>  	int index = (pfec + (not_smap << PFERR_RSVD_BIT)) >> 1;
> -	bool fault = (mmu->permissions[index] >> pte_access) & 1;
>  	u32 errcode = PFERR_PRESENT_MASK;
> +	bool fault;
> +
> +	if (tdp_enabled)
> +		kvm_mmu_refresh_passthrough_bits(vcpu, mmu);
> +
> +	fault = (mmu->permissions[index] >> pte_access) & 1;
>  
>  	WARN_ON(pfec & (PFERR_PK_MASK | PFERR_RSVD_MASK));
>  	if (unlikely(mmu->pkru_mask)) {
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index 4c874d4ec68f..2a63b5725f36 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -5186,6 +5186,20 @@ static union kvm_cpu_role kvm_calc_cpu_role(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	return role;
>  }
>  
> +void kvm_mmu_refresh_passthrough_bits(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu *mmu)
> +{
> +	const bool cr0_wp = kvm_is_cr0_bit_set(vcpu, X86_CR0_WP);
> +
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON((KVM_MMU_CR0_ROLE_BITS & KVM_POSSIBLE_CR0_GUEST_BITS) != X86_CR0_WP);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON((KVM_MMU_CR4_ROLE_BITS & KVM_POSSIBLE_CR4_GUEST_BITS));
> +
> +	if (is_cr0_wp(mmu) == cr0_wp)
> +		return;
> +
> +	mmu->cpu_role.base.cr0_wp = cr0_wp;
> +	reset_guest_paging_metadata(vcpu, mmu);
> +}
> +
>  static inline int kvm_mmu_get_tdp_level(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>  	/* tdp_root_level is architecture forced level, use it if nonzero */
> 
> base-commit: 27d6845d258b67f4eb3debe062b7dacc67e0c393

I tested a backported version of this patch on v6.1 as that's what I was
testing with and it worked fine. :)

I'll do more thorough tests tomorrow and actually on kvm-x86/next's HEAD.

Thanks a lot, Sean!

Mathias