Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] KVM: s390: pv: don't allow userspace to set the clock under PV

[Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed,  5 Oct 2022 18:32:57 +0200
Nico Boehr <nrb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When running under PV, the guest's TOD clock is under control of the
> ultravisor and the hypervisor isn't allowed to change it. Hence, don't
> allow userspace to change the guest's TOD clock by returning
> -EOPNOTSUPP.
> 
> When userspace changes the guest's TOD clock, KVM updates its
> kvm.arch.epoch field and, in addition, the epoch field in all state
> descriptions of all VCPUs.
> 
> But, under PV, the ultravisor will ignore the epoch field in the state
> description and simply overwrite it on next SIE exit with the actual
> guest epoch. This leads to KVM having an incorrect view of the guest's
> TOD clock: it has updated its internal kvm.arch.epoch field, but the
> ultravisor ignores the field in the state description.
> 
> Whenever a guest is now waiting for a clock comparator, KVM will
> incorrectly calculate the time when the guest should wake up, possibly
> causing the guest to sleep for much longer than expected.
> 
> With this change, kvm_s390_set_tod() will now take the kvm->lock to be
> able to call kvm_s390_pv_is_protected(). Since kvm_s390_set_tod_clock()
> also takes kvm->lock, use __kvm_s390_set_tod_clock() instead.
> 
> Fixes: 0f3035047140 ("KVM: s390: protvirt: Do only reset registers that are accessible")
> Reported-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nico Boehr <nrb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> index b7ef0b71014d..0a8019b14c8f 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> @@ -1207,6 +1207,8 @@ static int kvm_s390_vm_get_migration(struct kvm *kvm,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static void __kvm_s390_set_tod_clock(struct kvm *kvm, const struct kvm_s390_vm_tod_clock *gtod);
> +
>  static int kvm_s390_set_tod_ext(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_device_attr *attr)
>  {
>  	struct kvm_s390_vm_tod_clock gtod;
> @@ -1216,7 +1218,7 @@ static int kvm_s390_set_tod_ext(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_device_attr *attr)
>  
>  	if (!test_kvm_facility(kvm, 139) && gtod.epoch_idx)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> -	kvm_s390_set_tod_clock(kvm, &gtod);
> +	__kvm_s390_set_tod_clock(kvm, &gtod);
>  
>  	VM_EVENT(kvm, 3, "SET: TOD extension: 0x%x, TOD base: 0x%llx",
>  		gtod.epoch_idx, gtod.tod);
> @@ -1247,7 +1249,7 @@ static int kvm_s390_set_tod_low(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_device_attr *attr)
>  			   sizeof(gtod.tod)))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
> -	kvm_s390_set_tod_clock(kvm, &gtod);
> +	__kvm_s390_set_tod_clock(kvm, &gtod);
>  	VM_EVENT(kvm, 3, "SET: TOD base: 0x%llx", gtod.tod);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -1259,6 +1261,12 @@ static int kvm_s390_set_tod(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_device_attr *attr)
>  	if (attr->flags)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> +	mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
> +	if (kvm_s390_pv_is_protected(kvm)) {
> +		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +		goto out_unlock;
> +	}
> +
>  	switch (attr->attr) {
>  	case KVM_S390_VM_TOD_EXT:
>  		ret = kvm_s390_set_tod_ext(kvm, attr);
> @@ -1273,6 +1281,9 @@ static int kvm_s390_set_tod(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_device_attr *attr)
>  		ret = -ENXIO;
>  		break;
>  	}
> +
> +out_unlock:
> +	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
>  	return ret;
>  }
>