Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Relax canonical checks on some arch msrs

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On Wed, 2024-10-30 at 14:22 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > On Fri, 2024-09-06 at 18:18 -0400, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > Recently we came up upon a failure where likely the guest writes
> > > 0xff4547ceb1600000 to MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE and later on, qemu
> > > sets this value via KVM_PUT_MSRS, and is rejected by the
> > > kernel, likely due to not being canonical in 4 level paging.
> > > 
> > > One of the way to trigger this is to make the guest enter SMM,
> > > which causes paging to be disabled, which SMM bios re-enables
> > > but not the whole 5 level. MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE on the other
> > > hand continues to contain old value.
> > > 
> > > I did some reverse engineering and to my surprise I found out
> > > that both Intel and AMD indeed ignore CR4.LA57 when doing
> > > canonical checks on this and other msrs and/or other arch
> > > registers (like GDT base) which contain linear addresses.
> > > 
> > > V2: addressed a very good feedback from Chao Gao. Thanks!
> > > 
> > > V3: also fix the nested VMX, and also fix the
> > > MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP / MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP
> > > 
> > > V4:
> > >   - added PT and PEBS msrs
> > >   - corrected emulation of SGDT/SIDT/STR/SLDT instructions
> > >   - corrected canonical checks for TLB invalidation instructions
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > 	Maxim Levitsky
> > > 
> > > Maxim Levitsky (4):
> > >   KVM: x86: drop x86.h include from cpuid.h
> > >   KVM: x86: implement emul_is_noncanonical_address using
> > >     is_noncanonical_address
> > >   KVM: x86: model canonical checks more precisely
> > >   KVM: nVMX: fix canonical check of vmcs12 HOST_RIP
> > > 
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h         |  1 -
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c       | 15 ++++++-----
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h   |  5 ++++
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h           |  1 +
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c       |  2 +-
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/hyperv.c    |  1 +
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c    | 35 +++++++++++++++++---------
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c |  2 +-
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/sgx.c       |  5 ++--
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c       |  4 +--
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c           | 13 +++++++---
> > >  arch/x86/kvm/x86.h           | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > >  12 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 2.26.3
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > A very gentle ping on this patch series.
> 
> Heh, good timing, I literally (like, 2 seconds ago) applied this (still need to
> test before you'll see a "thank you" email).
> 

Thank you!

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky





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