The remaining failures of vmx.flat when EPT is disabled are caused by
incorrectly reflecting VMfails to the L1 hypervisor. What happens is
that nested_vmx_restore_host_state corrupts the guest CR3, reloading it
with the host's shadow CR3 instead, because it blindly loads GUEST_CR3
from the vmcs01.
For simplicity let's just always use hardware VMCS checks when EPT is
disabled. This way, nested_vmx_restore_host_state is not reached at
all (or at least shouldn't be reached).
---
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h
index f0b0c90dd398..d213ec5c3766 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@
#define VMX_ABORT_SAVE_GUEST_MSR_FAIL 1
#define VMX_ABORT_LOAD_HOST_PDPTE_FAIL 2
+#define VMX_ABORT_VMCS_CORRUPTED 3
#define VMX_ABORT_LOAD_HOST_MSR_FAIL 4
#endif /* _UAPIVMX_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index a22af5a85540..6401eb7ef19c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -3796,8 +3796,18 @@ static void nested_vmx_restore_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
vmx_set_cr4(vcpu, vmcs_readl(CR4_READ_SHADOW));
nested_ept_uninit_mmu_context(vcpu);
- vcpu->arch.cr3 = vmcs_readl(GUEST_CR3);
- __set_bit(VCPU_EXREG_CR3, (ulong *)&vcpu->arch.regs_avail);
+
+ /*
+ * This is only valid if EPT is in use, otherwise the vmcs01 GUEST_CR3
+ * points to shadow pages! Fortunately we only get here after a WARN_ON
+ * if EPT is disabled, so a VMabort is perfectly fine.
+ */
+ if (enable_ept) {
+ vcpu->arch.cr3 = vmcs_readl(GUEST_CR3);
+ __set_bit(VCPU_EXREG_CR3, (ulong *)&vcpu->arch.regs_avail);
+ } else {
+ nested_vmx_abort(vcpu, VMX_ABORT_VMCS_CORRUPTED);
+ }
/*
* Use ept_save_pdptrs(vcpu) to load the MMU's cached PDPTRs
@@ -5745,6 +5755,14 @@ __init int nested_vmx_hardware_setup(int (*exit_handlers[])(struct kvm_vcpu *))
{
int i;
+ /*
+ * Without EPT it is not possible to restore L1's CR3 and PDPTR on
+ * VMfail, because they are not available in vmcs01. Just always
+ * use hardware checks.
+ */
+ if (!enable_ept)
+ nested_early_check = 1;
+
if (!cpu_has_vmx_shadow_vmcs())
enable_shadow_vmcs = 0;
if (enable_shadow_vmcs) {
--
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