KVM has an old optimization whereby accesses to the kernel GS base MSR
are trapped when the guest is in 32-bit and not when it is in 64-bit mode.
The idea is that swapgs is not available in 32-bit mode and thus the
guest has no reason to access the MSR unless in 64-bit mode. Therefore
32-bit applications need not pay the price of switching the kernel GS
base between the host and the guest values, 64-bit applications.
However, this optimization adds complexity to the code for little
benefit (these days most guests are going to be 64-bit anyway) and in fact
broke after commit 678e315e78a7 ("KVM: vmx: add dedicated utility to
access guest's kernel_gs_base", 2018-08-06); the guest kernel GS base
is not restored correctly by the RSM instruction and UEFI Secure Boot
was broken. This patch just removes the optimization; the kernel
GS base MSR is now never trapped by KVM, similarly to the FS and GS
base MSRs.
Fixes: 678e315e78a780dbef384b92339c8414309dbc11
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 47 ++++++++++-------------------------------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 06412ba46aa3..8b066480224b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@
#define MSR_BITMAP_MODE_X2APIC 1
#define MSR_BITMAP_MODE_X2APIC_APICV 2
-#define MSR_BITMAP_MODE_LM 4
#define KVM_VMX_TSC_MULTIPLIER_MAX 0xffffffffffffffffULL
@@ -2899,8 +2898,7 @@ static void vmx_prepare_switch_to_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
vmx->msr_host_kernel_gs_base = read_msr(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE);
}
- if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu))
- wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
+ wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
#else
savesegment(fs, fs_sel);
savesegment(gs, gs_sel);
@@ -2951,8 +2949,7 @@ static void vmx_prepare_switch_to_host(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
vmx->loaded_cpu_state = NULL;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
- if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu))
- rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
+ rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
#endif
if (host_state->ldt_sel || (host_state->gs_sel & 7)) {
kvm_load_ldt(host_state->ldt_sel);
@@ -2980,24 +2977,19 @@ static void vmx_prepare_switch_to_host(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
static u64 vmx_read_guest_kernel_gs_base(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
{
- if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu)) {
- preempt_disable();
- if (vmx->loaded_cpu_state)
- rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE,
- vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
- preempt_enable();
- }
+ preempt_disable();
+ if (vmx->loaded_cpu_state)
+ rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
+ preempt_enable();
return vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base;
}
static void vmx_write_guest_kernel_gs_base(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx, u64 data)
{
- if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu)) {
- preempt_disable();
- if (vmx->loaded_cpu_state)
- wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, data);
- preempt_enable();
- }
+ preempt_disable();
+ if (vmx->loaded_cpu_state)
+ wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, data);
+ preempt_enable();
vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base = data;
}
#endif
@@ -5073,19 +5065,6 @@ static void vmx_set_efer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 efer)
if (!msr)
return;
- /*
- * MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE is not intercepted when the guest is in
- * 64-bit mode as a 64-bit kernel may frequently access the
- * MSR. This means we need to manually save/restore the MSR
- * when switching between guest and host state, but only if
- * the guest is in 64-bit mode. Sync our cached value if the
- * guest is transitioning to 32-bit mode and the CPU contains
- * guest state, i.e. the cache is stale.
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
- if (!(efer & EFER_LMA))
- (void)vmx_read_guest_kernel_gs_base(vmx);
-#endif
vcpu->arch.efer = efer;
if (efer & EFER_LMA) {
vm_entry_controls_setbit(to_vmx(vcpu), VM_ENTRY_IA32E_MODE);
@@ -6078,9 +6057,6 @@ static u8 vmx_msr_bitmap_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
mode |= MSR_BITMAP_MODE_X2APIC_APICV;
}
- if (is_long_mode(vcpu))
- mode |= MSR_BITMAP_MODE_LM;
-
return mode;
}
@@ -6121,9 +6097,6 @@ static void vmx_update_msr_bitmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (!changed)
return;
- vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, MSR_TYPE_RW,
- !(mode & MSR_BITMAP_MODE_LM));
-
if (changed & (MSR_BITMAP_MODE_X2APIC | MSR_BITMAP_MODE_X2APIC_APICV))
vmx_update_msr_bitmap_x2apic(msr_bitmap, mode);
--
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