Keep CR3 load/store exiting enable as needed when running L2 in order to
honor L1's desires. This fixes a largely theoretical bug where L1 could
intercept CR3 but not CR0.PG and end up not getting the desired CR3 exits
when L2 enables paging. In other words, the existing !is_paging() check
inadvertantly handles the normal case for L2 where vmx_set_cr0() is
called during VM-Enter, which is guaranteed to run with paging enabled,
and thus will never clear the bits.
Removing the !is_paging() check will also allow future consolidation and
cleanup of the related code. From a performance perspective, this is
all a nop, as the VMCS controls shadow will optimize away the VMWRITE
when the controls are in the desired state.
Add a comment explaining why CR3 is intercepted, with a big disclaimer
about not querying the old CR3. Because vmx_set_cr0() is used for flows
that are not directly tied to MOV CR3, e.g. vCPU RESET/INIT and nested
VM-Enter, it's possible that is_paging() is not synchronized with CR3
load/store exiting. This is actually guaranteed in the current code, as
KVM starts with CR3 interception disabled. Obviously that can be fixed,
but there's no good reason to play whack-a-mole, and it tends to end
poorly, e.g. descriptor table exiting for UMIP emulation attempted to be
precise in the past and ended up botching the interception toggling.
Fixes: fe3ef05c7572 ("KVM: nVMX: Prepare vmcs02 from vmcs01 and vmcs12")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index db70fe463aa1..58c6d7b98624 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -2994,10 +2994,14 @@ void ept_save_pdptrs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
kvm_register_mark_dirty(vcpu, VCPU_EXREG_PDPTR);
}
+#define CR3_EXITING_BITS (CPU_BASED_CR3_LOAD_EXITING | \
+ CPU_BASED_CR3_STORE_EXITING)
+
void vmx_set_cr0(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr0)
{
struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
unsigned long hw_cr0;
+ u32 tmp;
hw_cr0 = (cr0 & ~KVM_VM_CR0_ALWAYS_OFF);
if (is_unrestricted_guest(vcpu))
@@ -3024,18 +3028,42 @@ void vmx_set_cr0(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr0)
#endif
if (enable_ept && !is_unrestricted_guest(vcpu)) {
+ /*
+ * Ensure KVM has an up-to-date snapshot of the guest's CR3. If
+ * the below code _enables_ CR3 exiting, vmx_cache_reg() will
+ * (correctly) stop reading vmcs.GUEST_CR3 because it thinks
+ * KVM's CR3 is installed.
+ */
if (!kvm_register_is_available(vcpu, VCPU_EXREG_CR3))
vmx_cache_reg(vcpu, VCPU_EXREG_CR3);
+
+ /*
+ * When running with EPT but not unrestricted guest, KVM must
+ * intercept CR3 accesses when paging is _disabled_. This is
+ * necessary because restricted guests can't actually run with
+ * paging disabled, and so KVM stuffs its own CR3 in order to
+ * run the guest when identity mapped page tables.
+ *
+ * Do _NOT_ check the old CR0.PG, e.g. to optimize away the
+ * update, it may be stale with respect to CR3 interception,
+ * e.g. after nested VM-Enter.
+ *
+ * Lastly, honor L1's desires, i.e. intercept CR3 loads and/or
+ * stores to forward them to L1, even if KVM does not need to
+ * intercept them to preserve its identity mapped page tables.
+ */
if (!(cr0 & X86_CR0_PG)) {
- /* From paging/starting to nonpaging */
- exec_controls_setbit(vmx, CPU_BASED_CR3_LOAD_EXITING |
- CPU_BASED_CR3_STORE_EXITING);
- vcpu->arch.cr0 = cr0;
- vmx_set_cr4(vcpu, kvm_read_cr4(vcpu));
- } else if (!is_paging(vcpu)) {
- /* From nonpaging to paging */
- exec_controls_clearbit(vmx, CPU_BASED_CR3_LOAD_EXITING |
- CPU_BASED_CR3_STORE_EXITING);
+ exec_controls_setbit(vmx, CR3_EXITING_BITS);
+ } else if (!is_guest_mode(vcpu)) {
+ exec_controls_clearbit(vmx, CR3_EXITING_BITS);
+ } else {
+ tmp = exec_controls_get(vmx);
+ tmp &= ~CR3_EXITING_BITS;
+ tmp |= get_vmcs12(vcpu)->cpu_based_vm_exec_control & CR3_EXITING_BITS;
+ exec_controls_set(vmx, tmp);
+ }
+
+ if (!is_paging(vcpu) != !(cr0 & X86_CR0_PG)) {
vcpu->arch.cr0 = cr0;
vmx_set_cr4(vcpu, kvm_read_cr4(vcpu));
}
--
2.32.0.93.g670b81a890-goog
