Re: [PATCH v2] kvm: nVMX: VMCLEAR an active shadow VMCS after last use

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On 28/10/2016 17:29, Jim Mattson wrote:
> After a successful VM-entry with the "VMCS shadowing" VM-execution
> control set, the shadow VMCS referenced by the VMCS link pointer field
> in the current VMCS becomes active on the logical processor.
> 
> A VMCS that is made active on more than one logical processor may become
> corrupted. Therefore, before an active VMCS can be migrated to another
> logical processor, the first logical processor must execute a VMCLEAR
> for the active VMCS. VMCLEAR both ensures that all VMCS data are written
> to memory and makes the VMCS inactive.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-By: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>

The patch looks good but---sorry for the possibly stupid
question---where was v1?

Paolo

> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index cf0b7be..046b03f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ struct vmcs {
>   */
>  struct loaded_vmcs {
>  	struct vmcs *vmcs;
> +	struct vmcs *shadow_vmcs;
>  	int cpu;
>  	int launched;
>  	struct list_head loaded_vmcss_on_cpu_link;
> @@ -411,7 +412,6 @@ struct nested_vmx {
>  	 * memory during VMXOFF, VMCLEAR, VMPTRLD.
>  	 */
>  	struct vmcs12 *cached_vmcs12;
> -	struct vmcs *current_shadow_vmcs;
>  	/*
>  	 * Indicates if the shadow vmcs must be updated with the
>  	 * data hold by vmcs12
> @@ -1419,6 +1419,8 @@ static void vmcs_clear(struct vmcs *vmcs)
>  static inline void loaded_vmcs_init(struct loaded_vmcs *loaded_vmcs)
>  {
>  	vmcs_clear(loaded_vmcs->vmcs);
> +	if (loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs && loaded_vmcs->launched)
> +		vmcs_clear(loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs);
>  	loaded_vmcs->cpu = -1;
>  	loaded_vmcs->launched = 0;
>  }
> @@ -3562,6 +3564,7 @@ static void free_loaded_vmcs(struct loaded_vmcs *loaded_vmcs)
>  	loaded_vmcs_clear(loaded_vmcs);
>  	free_vmcs(loaded_vmcs->vmcs);
>  	loaded_vmcs->vmcs = NULL;
> +	WARN_ON(loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs != NULL);
>  }
>  
>  static void free_kvm_area(void)
> @@ -6696,6 +6699,7 @@ static struct loaded_vmcs *nested_get_current_vmcs02(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
>  	if (!item)
>  		return NULL;
>  	item->vmcs02.vmcs = alloc_vmcs();
> +	item->vmcs02.shadow_vmcs = NULL;
>  	if (!item->vmcs02.vmcs) {
>  		kfree(item);
>  		return NULL;
> @@ -7072,7 +7076,7 @@ static int handle_vmon(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  		shadow_vmcs->revision_id |= (1u << 31);
>  		/* init shadow vmcs */
>  		vmcs_clear(shadow_vmcs);
> -		vmx->nested.current_shadow_vmcs = shadow_vmcs;
> +		vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs = shadow_vmcs;
>  	}
>  
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&(vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool));
> @@ -7174,8 +7178,11 @@ static void free_nested(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
>  		free_page((unsigned long)vmx->nested.msr_bitmap);
>  		vmx->nested.msr_bitmap = NULL;
>  	}
> -	if (enable_shadow_vmcs)
> -		free_vmcs(vmx->nested.current_shadow_vmcs);
> +	if (enable_shadow_vmcs) {
> +		vmcs_clear(vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs);
> +		free_vmcs(vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs);
> +		vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs = NULL;
> +	}
>  	kfree(vmx->nested.cached_vmcs12);
>  	/* Unpin physical memory we referred to in current vmcs02 */
>  	if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) {
> @@ -7352,7 +7359,7 @@ static void copy_shadow_to_vmcs12(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
>  	int i;
>  	unsigned long field;
>  	u64 field_value;
> -	struct vmcs *shadow_vmcs = vmx->nested.current_shadow_vmcs;
> +	struct vmcs *shadow_vmcs = vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs;
>  	const unsigned long *fields = shadow_read_write_fields;
>  	const int num_fields = max_shadow_read_write_fields;
>  
> @@ -7401,7 +7408,7 @@ static void copy_vmcs12_to_shadow(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
>  	int i, q;
>  	unsigned long field;
>  	u64 field_value = 0;
> -	struct vmcs *shadow_vmcs = vmx->nested.current_shadow_vmcs;
> +	struct vmcs *shadow_vmcs = vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs;
>  
>  	vmcs_load(shadow_vmcs);
>  
> @@ -7591,7 +7598,7 @@ static int handle_vmptrld(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  			vmcs_set_bits(SECONDARY_VM_EXEC_CONTROL,
>  				      SECONDARY_EXEC_SHADOW_VMCS);
>  			vmcs_write64(VMCS_LINK_POINTER,
> -				     __pa(vmx->nested.current_shadow_vmcs));
> +				     __pa(vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs));
>  			vmx->nested.sync_shadow_vmcs = true;
>  		}
>  	}
> @@ -9156,6 +9163,7 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *vmx_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id)
>  
>  	vmx->loaded_vmcs = &vmx->vmcs01;
>  	vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs = alloc_vmcs();
> +	vmx->loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs = NULL;
>  	if (!vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs)
>  		goto free_msrs;
>  	if (!vmm_exclusive)
> 
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