On Fri, 2018-03-02 at 18:41 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 28/02/2018 19:06, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> >
> > ... to avoid having a stale value when handling an EPT misconfig for MMIO
> > regions.
> >
> > MMIO regions that are not passed-through to the guest are handled through
> > EPT misconfigs. The first time a certain MMIO page is touched it causes an
> > EPT violation, then KVM marks the EPT entry to cause an EPT misconfig
> > instead. Any subsequent accesses to the entry will generate an EPT
> > misconfig.
> >
> > Things gets slightly complicated with nested guest handling for MMIO
> > regions that are not passed through from L0 (i.e. emulated by L0
> > user-space).
> >
> > An EPT violation for one of these MMIO regions from L2, exits to L0
> > hypervisor. L0 would then look at the EPT12 mapping for L1 hypervisor and
> > realize it is not present (or not sufficient to serve the request). Then L0
> > injects an EPT violation to L1. L1 would then update its EPT mappings. The
> > EXIT_QUALIFICATION value for L1 would come from exit_qualification variable
> > in "struct vcpu". The problem is that this variable is only updated on EPT
> > violation and not on EPT misconfig. So if an EPT violation because of a
> > read happened first, then an EPT misconfig because of a write happened
> > afterwards. The L0 hypervisor will still contain exit_qualification value
> > from the previous read instead of the write and end up injecting an EPT
> > violation to the L1 hypervisor with an out of date EXIT_QUALIFICATION.
> >
> > The EPT violation that is injected from L0 to L1 needs to have the correct
> > EXIT_QUALIFICATION specially for the access bits because the individual
> > access bits for MMIO EPTs are updated only on actual access of this
> > specific type. So for the example above, the L1 hypervisor will keep
> > updating only the read bit in the EPT then resume the L2 guest. The L2
> > guest would end up causing another exit where the L0 *again* will inject
> > another EPT violation to L1 hypervisor with *again* an out of date
> > exit_qualification which indicates a read and not a write. Then this
> > ping-pong just keeps happening without making any forward progress.
> >
> > The behavior of mapping MMIO regions changed in:
> >
> > commit a340b3e229b24 ("kvm: Map PFN-type memory regions as writable (if possible)")
> >
> > ... where an EPT violation for a read would also fixup the write bits to
> > avoid another EPT violation which by acciddent would fix the bug mentioned
> > above.
> >
> > This commit fixes this situation and ensures that the access bits for the
> > exit_qualifcation is up to date. That ensures that even L1 hypervisor
> > running with a KVM version before the commit mentioned above would still
> > work.
> >
> > ( The description above assumes EPT to be available and used by L1
> > hypervisor + the L1 hypervisor is passing through the MMIO region to the L2
> > guest while this MMIO region is emulated by the L0 user-space ).
>
> This looks okay. Would it be possible to add a kvm-unit-tests testcase
> for this?
Yup, makes sense. Just sent out a patch for kvm-unit-tests.
Thanks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paolo
>
> >
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 11 +++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> > index 5abae72..6288e9d 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> > @@ -452,14 +452,21 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr_generic)(struct guest_walker *walker,
> > * done by is_rsvd_bits_set() above.
> > *
> > * We set up the value of exit_qualification to inject:
> > - * [2:0] - Derive from [2:0] of real exit_qualification at EPT violation
> > + * [2:0] - Derive from the access bits. The exit_qualification might be
> > + * out of date if it is serving an EPT misconfiguration.
> > * [5:3] - Calculated by the page walk of the guest EPT page tables
> > * [7:8] - Derived from [7:8] of real exit_qualification
> > *
> > * The other bits are set to 0.
> > */
> > if (!(errcode & PFERR_RSVD_MASK)) {
> > - vcpu->arch.exit_qualification &= 0x187;
> > + vcpu->arch.exit_qualification &= 0x180;
> > + if (write_fault)
> > + vcpu->arch.exit_qualification |= EPT_VIOLATION_ACC_WRITE;
> > + if (user_fault)
> > + vcpu->arch.exit_qualification |= EPT_VIOLATION_ACC_READ;
> > + if (fetch_fault)
> > + vcpu->arch.exit_qualification |= EPT_VIOLATION_ACC_INSTR;
> > vcpu->arch.exit_qualification |= (pte_access & 0x7) << 3;
> > }
> > #endif
> >
>
>
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