Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Mark VMXArea with revision_id of physical CPU even when eVMCS enabled

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On 29/06/2018 21:59, Liran Alon wrote:
> When eVMCS is enabled, all VMCS allocated to be used by KVM are marked
> with revision_id of KVM_EVMCS_VERSION instead of revision_id reported
> by MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC.
> 
> However, even though not explictly documented by TLFS, VMXArea passed
> as VMXON argument should still be marked with revision_id reported by
> physical CPU.
> 
> This issue was found by the following setup:
> * L0 = KVM which expose eVMCS to it's L1 guest.
> * L1 = KVM which consume eVMCS reported by L0.
> This setup caused the following to occur:
> 1) L1 execute hardware_enable().
> 2) hardware_enable() calls kvm_cpu_vmxon() to execute VMXON.
> 3) L0 intercept L1 VMXON and execute handle_vmon() which notes
> vmxarea->revision_id != VMCS12_REVISION and therefore fails with
> nested_vmx_failInvalid() which sets RFLAGS.CF.
> 4) L1 kvm_cpu_vmxon() don't check RFLAGS.CF for failure and therefore
> hardware_enable() continues as usual.
> 5) L1 hardware_enable() then calls ept_sync_global() which executes
> INVEPT.
> 6) L0 intercept INVEPT and execute handle_invept() which notes
> !vmx->nested.vmxon and thus raise a #UD to L1.
> 7) Raised #UD caused L1 to panic.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>

Queued for -rc, thanks.

Paolo

> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index 1689f433f3a0..13d765e574ca 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -4322,11 +4322,7 @@ static __init int setup_vmcs_config(struct vmcs_config *vmcs_conf)
>  	vmcs_conf->order = get_order(vmcs_conf->size);
>  	vmcs_conf->basic_cap = vmx_msr_high & ~0x1fff;
>  
> -	/* KVM supports Enlightened VMCS v1 only */
> -	if (static_branch_unlikely(&enable_evmcs))
> -		vmcs_conf->revision_id = KVM_EVMCS_VERSION;
> -	else
> -		vmcs_conf->revision_id = vmx_msr_low;
> +	vmcs_conf->revision_id = vmx_msr_low;
>  
>  	vmcs_conf->pin_based_exec_ctrl = _pin_based_exec_control;
>  	vmcs_conf->cpu_based_exec_ctrl = _cpu_based_exec_control;
> @@ -4396,7 +4392,13 @@ static struct vmcs *alloc_vmcs_cpu(int cpu)
>  		return NULL;
>  	vmcs = page_address(pages);
>  	memset(vmcs, 0, vmcs_config.size);
> -	vmcs->revision_id = vmcs_config.revision_id; /* vmcs revision id */
> +
> +	/* KVM supports Enlightened VMCS v1 only */
> +	if (static_branch_unlikely(&enable_evmcs))
> +		vmcs->revision_id = KVM_EVMCS_VERSION;
> +	else
> +		vmcs->revision_id = vmcs_config.revision_id;
> +
>  	return vmcs;
>  }
>  
> @@ -4564,6 +4566,19 @@ static __init int alloc_kvm_area(void)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  		}
>  
> +		/*
> +		 * When eVMCS is enabled, alloc_vmcs_cpu() sets
> +		 * vmcs->revision_id to KVM_EVMCS_VERSION instead of
> +		 * revision_id reported by MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC.
> +		 *
> +		 * However, even though not explictly documented by
> +		 * TLFS, VMXArea passed as VMXON argument should
> +		 * still be marked with revision_id reported by
> +		 * physical CPU.
> +		 */
> +		if (static_branch_unlikely(&enable_evmcs))
> +			vmcs->revision_id = vmcs_config.revision_id;
> +
>  		per_cpu(vmxarea, cpu) = vmcs;
>  	}
>  	return 0;
> 




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