On Thu, Jan 14, 2021, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 15:00 -0500, Bandan Das wrote:
> > Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > ...
> > > > - if ((emulation_type & EMULTYPE_VMWARE_GP) &&
> > > > - !is_vmware_backdoor_opcode(ctxt)) {
> > > > - kvm_queue_exception_e(vcpu, GP_VECTOR, 0);
> > > > - return 1;
> > > > + if (emulation_type & EMULTYPE_PARAVIRT_GP) {
> > > > + vminstr = is_vm_instr_opcode(ctxt);
> > > > + if (!vminstr && !is_vmware_backdoor_opcode(ctxt)) {
> > > > + kvm_queue_exception_e(vcpu, GP_VECTOR, 0);
> > > > + return 1;
> > > > + }
> > > > + if (vminstr)
> > > > + return vminstr;
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure this doesn't correctly handle a VM-instr in L2 that hits a bad
> > > L0 GPA and that L1 wants to intercept. The intercept bitmap isn't checked until
> > > x86_emulate_insn(), and the vm*_interception() helpers expect nested VM-Exits to
> > > be handled further up the stack.
>
> Actually IMHO this exactly what we want. We want L0 to always intercept
> these #GPs, and hide them from the guest.
>
> What we do need to do (and I prepared and attached a patch for that, is that
> if we run a guest, we want to inject corresponding vmexit (like
> SVM_EXIT_VMRUN) instead of emulating the instruction.
Yes, lack of forwarding to L1 as a nested exit is what I meant by "doesn't
correctly handle".
