Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: pvclock: Handle first-time write to pvclock-page contains random junk

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On 13/11/17 02:40, Wanpeng Li wrote:
2017-11-05 22:11 GMT+08:00 Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>:
When guest passes KVM it's pvclock-page GPA via WRMSR to
MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME / MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME_NEW, KVM don't initialize
pvclock-page to some start-values. It just requests a clock-update which

KVM does, please refer to memset(hv_clock, 0, size) in kvmclock_init().

kvmclock_init() is the code that runs in KVM-guest. I was talking here about the code that handles the WRMSR in KVM hypervisor code.

The issue happens when the guest doesn't init pvclock-page as done in kvmclock_init(). Not all guests behave nicely :)

-Liran

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

will happen before entering to guest.

The clock-update logic will call kvm_setup_pvclock_page() to update the
pvclock-page with info. However, kvm_setup_pvclock_page() *wrongly*
assumes that the version-field is initialized to an even number. This is
wrong because at first-time write, field could be any-value.

Fix simply makes sure that if first-time version-field is odd, increment
it once more to make it even and only then start standard logic.
This follows same logic as done in other pvclock shared-pages (See
kvm_write_wall_clock() and record_steal_time()).

Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko <nikita.leshchenko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +++
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 03869eb7fcd6..181106080e41 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1830,6 +1830,9 @@ static void kvm_setup_pvclock_page(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
          */
         BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info, version) != 0);

+       if (guest_hv_clock.version & 1)
+               ++guest_hv_clock.version;  /* first time write, random junk */
+
         vcpu->hv_clock.version = guest_hv_clock.version + 1;
         kvm_write_guest_cached(v->kvm, &vcpu->pv_time,
                                 &vcpu->hv_clock,
--
1.9.1




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