Re: [PATCH] kvm: svm: Ensure an IBPB on all affected CPUs when freeing a vmcb

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On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 9:33 AM Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 09:54:20AM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > Previously, we only called indirect_branch_prediction_barrier on the
> > logical CPU that freed a vmcb. This function should be called on all
> > logical CPUs that last loaded the vmcb in question.
> >
> > Fixes: 15d45071523d ("KVM/x86: Add IBPB support")
> > Reported-by: Neel Natu <neelnatu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you!
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> > index 220e5a89465a..ffa27f75e323 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> > @@ -2172,21 +2172,31 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *svm_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id)
> >       return ERR_PTR(err);
> >  }
> >
> > +static void svm_clear_current_vmcb(struct vmcb *vmcb)
> > +{
> > +     int i;
> > +
> > +     for_each_online_cpu(i)
> > +             cmpxchg(&per_cpu(svm_data, i)->current_vmcb, vmcb, NULL);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static void svm_free_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  {
> >       struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
> >
> > +     /*
> > +      * The vmcb page can be recycled, causing a false negative in
> > +      * svm_vcpu_load(). So, ensure that no logical CPU has this
> > +      * vmcb page recorded as its current vmcb.
> > +      */
> > +     svm_clear_current_vmcb(svm->vmcb);
> > +
> >       __free_page(pfn_to_page(__sme_clr(svm->vmcb_pa) >> PAGE_SHIFT));
> >       __free_pages(virt_to_page(svm->msrpm), MSRPM_ALLOC_ORDER);
> >       __free_page(virt_to_page(svm->nested.hsave));
> >       __free_pages(virt_to_page(svm->nested.msrpm), MSRPM_ALLOC_ORDER);
> >       kvm_vcpu_uninit(vcpu);
> >       kmem_cache_free(kvm_vcpu_cache, svm);
> > -     /*
> > -      * The vmcb page can be recycled, causing a false negative in
> > -      * svm_vcpu_load(). So do a full IBPB now.
> > -      */
> > -     indirect_branch_prediction_barrier();
> >  }
> >
> >  static void svm_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
> > --
> > 2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d-goog
> >

Ping.



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