Re: nVMX: Shadowing of CPU_BASED_VM_EXEC_CONTROL broken

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Il 08/10/2014 10:29, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> 
> after migrating a Jailhouse VM to a newer host platform with shadow VMCS
> support I found a bug. As you may know, Jailhouse doesn't intercept
> interrupts, thus also never requests an interrupt window. Nevertheless:
> 
>  qemu-system-x86-5777  [001] 74970.625324: kvm_mmio:             mmio write len 4 gpa 0xfebf5008 val 0x20 qemu-system-x86-5777  [001] 74970.625325: kvm_userspace_exit:   reason KVM_EXIT_MMIO (6)
>  qemu-system-x86-5777  [001] 74970.625330: kvm_entry:            vcpu 1
>  qemu-system-x86-5777  [001] 74970.625333: kvm_exit:             reason PENDING_INTERRUPT rip 0xffffffff81043e54 info 0 0
>  qemu-system-x86-5777  [001] 74970.625333: kvm_nested_vmexit:    rip: 0xffffffff81043e54 reason: PENDING_INTERRUPT ext_inf1: 0x0000000000000000 ext_inf2: 0x0000000000000000 ext_int: 0x00000000 ext_int_err: 0x00000000
>  qemu-system-x86-5777  [001] 74970.625334: kvm_nested_vmexit_inject: reason: PENDING_INTERRUPT ext_inf1: 0x0000000000000000 ext_inf2: 0x0000000000000000 ext_int: 0x00000000 ext_int_err: 0x00000000
>  qemu-system-x86-5777  [001] 74970.625339: kvm_entry:            vcpu 1
>  qemu-system-x86-5777  [001] 74970.625341: kvm_exit:             reason EPT_MISCONFIG rip 0xfffffffff0002307 info 0 0
>  qemu-system-x86-5777  [001] 74970.625343: kvm_emulate_insn:     0:fffffffff0002307:8b 40 20 (prot64)
> 
> And then Jailhouse crashes (which is also interesting to understand why
> - L1 host state is corrupt). Anyway, the point is that we leak
> CPU_BASED_VIRTUAL_INTR_PENDING from L0 into vmcs12. L0 sets it before
> entering L2, and then we transfer it from the hardware state to vmc12 on
> exit because that VMCS field is shadowed. The crash disappears when
> disabling VMCS shadowing.
> 
> Can we simply stop shadowing CPU_BASED_VM_EXEC_CONTROL when
> CPU_BASED_VIRTUAL_INTR_PENDING is injected to L2?

The main problem is that we have a single shadowing bitmap for all
virtual machines.  I cannot think of a simple solution except not
shadowing that field at all.

Paolo

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