On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:51:55 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Rework the handling of !visible guest root gfns to wait until the guest
> actually tries to access memory before synthesizing a fault. KVM currently
> just immediately synthesizes triple fault, which causes problems for nVMX
> and nSVM as immediately injecting a fault causes KVM to try and forward the
> fault to L1 (as a VM-Exit) before completing nested VM-Enter, e.g. if L1
> runs L2 with a "bad" nested TDP root.
>
> [...]
With some trepidation that I'm overlooking something, applied to kvm-x86 mmu.
Patches 1-4 are worthwhile on their own, so even if the actual fix is wildly
broken somehow and needs to be reverted, it'll just be that one commit that
gets nuked.
[1/5] KVM: x86/mmu: Add helper to convert root hpa to shadow page
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/732f57612d5c
[2/5] KVM: x86/mmu: Harden new PGD against roots without shadow pages
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/9e3f832edfca
[3/5] KVM: x86/mmu: Harden TDP MMU iteration against root w/o shadow page
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/004c297c327f
[4/5] KVM: x86/mmu: Disallow guest from using !visible slots for page tables
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/81d4621b7d9f
[5/5] KVM: x86/mmu: Use dummy root, backed by zero page, for !visible guest roots
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/a328a359d99b
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