Re: [PATCH v2 08/18] KVM: nVMX: move check_vmentry_postreqs() call to nested_vmx_enter_non_root_mode()

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On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In preparation of supporting checkpoint/restore for nested state,
> commit ca0bde28f2ed ("kvm: nVMX: Split VMCS checks from nested_vmx_run()")
> modified check_vmentry_postreqs() to only perform the guest EFER
> consistency checks when nested_run_pending is true.  But, in the
> normal nested VMEntry flow, nested_run_pending is only set after
> check_vmentry_postreqs(), i.e. the consistency check is being skipped.
>
> Alternatively, nested_run_pending could be set prior to calling
> check_vmentry_postreqs() in nested_vmx_run(), but placing the
> consistency checks in nested_vmx_enter_non_root_mode() allows us
> to split prepare_vmcs02() and interleave the preparation with
> the consistency checks without having to change the call sites
> of nested_vmx_enter_non_root_mode().  In other words, the rest
> of the consistency check code in nested_vmx_run() will be joining
> the postreqs checks in future patches.
>
> Fixes: ca0bde28f2ed ("kvm: nVMX: Split VMCS checks from nested_vmx_run()")
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index 5fe44462f713..43e87a2e172e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -12556,7 +12556,16 @@ static int nested_vmx_enter_non_root_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 *exit_qual)
>         struct vmcs12 *vmcs12 = get_vmcs12(vcpu);
>         bool from_vmentry = !!exit_qual;
>         u32 dummy_exit_qual;
> -       int r = 0;
> +       int r;
> +
> +       if (from_vmentry) {
> +               r = check_vmentry_postreqs(vcpu, vmcs12, exit_qual);
> +               if (r) {
> +                       nested_vmx_entry_failure(vcpu, vmcs12,
> +                               EXIT_REASON_INVALID_STATE, *exit_qual);
> +                       return 1;
> +               }
> +       }

Can this be simplified to:

...
if (r)
        return EXIT_REASON_INVALID_STATE;

Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>



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