Re: [PATCH 0/5] kvm: fix latent guest entry/exit bugs

[Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>]

Am 14.01.22 um 14:32 schrieb Mark Rutland:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 01:29:46PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 14.01.22 um 13:19 schrieb Mark Rutland:
>>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 04:20:07PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>> Am 11.01.22 um 16:35 schrieb Mark Rutland:
>>>>> Several architectures have latent bugs around guest entry/exit, most
>>>>> notably:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Several architectures enable interrupts between guest_enter() and
>>>>>       guest_exit(). As this period is an RCU extended quiescent state (EQS) this
>>>>>       is unsound unless the irq entry code explicitly wakes RCU, which most
>>>>>       architectures only do for entry from usersapce or idle.
>>>>>
>>>>>       I believe this affects: arm64, riscv, s390
>>>>>
>>>>>       I am not sure about powerpc.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Several architectures permit instrumentation of code between
>>>>>       guest_enter() and guest_exit(), e.g. KASAN, KCOV, KCSAN, etc. As
>>>>>       instrumentation may directly o indirectly use RCU, this has the same
>>>>>       problems as with interrupts.
>>>>>
>>>>>       I believe this affects: arm64, mips, powerpc, riscv, s390
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) Several architectures do not inform lockdep and tracing that
>>>>>       interrupts are enabled during the execution of the guest, or do so in
>>>>>       an incorrect order. Generally
>>>>>       this means that logs will report IRQs being masked for much longer
>>>>>       than is actually the case, which is not ideal for debugging. I don't
>>>>>       know whether this affects the correctness of lockdep.
>>>>>
>>>>>       I believe this affects: arm64, mips, powerpc, riscv, s390
>>>>>
>>>>> This was previously fixed for x86 specifically in a series of commits:
>>>>>
>>>>>      87fa7f3e98a1310e ("x86/kvm: Move context tracking where it belongs")
>>>>>      0642391e2139a2c1 ("x86/kvm/vmx: Add hardirq tracing to guest enter/exit")
>>>>>      9fc975e9efd03e57 ("x86/kvm/svm: Add hardirq tracing on guest enter/exit")
>>>>>      3ebccdf373c21d86 ("x86/kvm/vmx: Move guest enter/exit into .noinstr.text")
>>>>>      135961e0a7d555fc ("x86/kvm/svm: Move guest enter/exit into .noinstr.text")
>>>>>      160457140187c5fb ("KVM: x86: Defer vtime accounting 'til after IRQ handling")
>>>>>      bc908e091b326467 ("KVM: x86: Consolidate guest enter/exit logic to common helpers")
>>>>>
>>>>> But other architectures were left broken, and the infrastructure for
>>>>> handling this correctly is x86-specific.
>>>>>
>>>>> This series introduces generic helper functions which can be used to
>>>>> handle the problems above, and migrates architectures over to these,
>>>>> fixing the latent issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wasn't able to figure my way around powerpc and s390, so I have not
>>>>
>>>> I think 2 later patches have moved the guest_enter/exit a bit out.
>>>> Does this make the s390 code clearer?
>>>
>>> Yes; that's much simpler to follow!
>>>
>>> One major thing I wasn't sure about for s390 is the sequence:
>>>
>>> 	guest_enter_irqoff();	// Enters an RCU EQS
>>> 	...
>>> 	local_irq_enable();
>>> 	...
>>> 	sie64a(...);
>>> 	...
>>> 	local_irq_disable();
>>> 	...
>>> 	guest_exit_irqoff();	// Exits an RCU EQS
>>>
>>> ... since if an IRQ is taken between local_irq_{enable,disable}(), RCU won't be
>>> watching, and I couldn't spot whether your regular IRQ entry logic would wake
>>> RCU in this case, or whether there was something else I'm missing that saves
>>> you here.
>>>
>>> For other architectures, including x86 and arm64, we enter the guest with IRQs
>>> masked and return from the guest with IRQs masked, and don't actually take IRQs
>>> until we unmask them in the host, after the guest_exit_*() logic has woken RCU
>>> and so on.
>>>
>>> I wasn't able to find documentation on the semantics of SIE, so I couldn't spot
>>> whether the local_irq_{enable,disable}() calls were necessary, or could be
>>> removed.
>>
>> We run the SIE instruction with interrupts enabled. SIE is interruptible.
>> The disable/enable pairs are just because  guest_enter/exit_irqoff() require them.
> 
> What I was trying to figure out was when an interrupt is taken between
> guest_enter_irqoff() and guest_exit_irqoff(), where is RCU woken? I couldn't
> spot that in the s390 entry code (probably simply because I'm not familiar with
> it), and so AFAICT that means IRQ code could run without RCU watching, which
> would cause things to explode.
> 
> On other architectures that problem is avoided because IRQs asserted during the
> guest cause a specific guest exit rather than a regular IRQ exception, and the
> HW enables/disables IRQs when entering/exiting the guest, so the host can leave
> IRQs masked across guest_enter_irqoff()..guest_exit_irqoff().
> 
> Am I right in understanding that SIE itself won't enable (host) interrupts
> while running the guest, and so it *needs* to be run with interrupts already
> enabled?

yes

> 
>> One thing to be aware of: in our entry.S - after an interrupt - we leave SIE by
>> setting the return address of the interrupt after the sie instruction so that we
>> get back into this __vcpu_run loop to check for signals and so.
> 
> Just to check, that's after the IRQ handler runs, right?

and yes.