On 3/17/25 12:36, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 3/17/25 12:28, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2025, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>>> On 3/17/25 12:20, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>>>> An AP destroy request for a target vCPU is typically followed by an
>>>> RMPADJUST to remove the VMSA attribute from the page currently being
>>>> used as the VMSA for the target vCPU. This can result in a vCPU that
>>>> is about to VMRUN to exit with #VMEXIT_INVALID.
>>>>
>>>> This usually does not happen as APs are typically sitting in HLT when
>>>> being destroyed and therefore the vCPU thread is not running at the time.
>>>> However, if HLT is allowed inside the VM, then the vCPU could be about to
>>>> VMRUN when the VMSA attribute is removed from the VMSA page, resulting in
>>>> a #VMEXIT_INVALID when the vCPU actually issues the VMRUN and causing the
>>>> guest to crash. An RMPADJUST against an in-use (already running) VMSA
>>>> results in a #NPF for the vCPU issuing the RMPADJUST, so the VMSA
>>>> attribute cannot be changed until the VMRUN for target vCPU exits. The
>>>> Qemu command line option '-overcommit cpu-pm=on' is an example of allowing
>>>> HLT inside the guest.
>>>>
>>>> Use kvm_test_request() to ensure that the target vCPU sees the AP destroy
>>>> request before returning to the initiating vCPU.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: e366f92ea99e ("KVM: SEV: Support SEV-SNP AP Creation NAE event")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Sean,
>>>
>>> If you're ok with this approach for the fix, this patch may need to be
>>> adjusted given your series around AP creation fixes, unless you want to
>>> put this as an early patch in your series. Let me know what you'd like
>>> to do.
>>
>> This is unsafe as it requires userspace to do KVM_RUN _and_ for the vCPU to get
>> far enough along to consume the request.
>>
>> Very off-the-cuff, but I assume KVM_REQ_UPDATE_PROTECTED_GUEST_STATE just needs
>> to be annotated with KVM_REQUEST_WAIT.
>
> Ok, nice. I wasn't sure if KVM_REQUEST_WAIT would be appropriate here.
> This is much simpler. Let me test it out and resend if everything goes ok.
So that doesn't work. I can still get an occasional #VMEXIT_INVALID. Let
me try to track down what is happening with this approach...
Thanks,
Tom
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> index 04e6c5604bc3..67abfe97c600 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> @@ -124,7 +124,8 @@
>> KVM_ARCH_REQ_FLAGS(31, KVM_REQUEST_WAIT | KVM_REQUEST_NO_WAKEUP)
>> #define KVM_REQ_HV_TLB_FLUSH \
>> KVM_ARCH_REQ_FLAGS(32, KVM_REQUEST_WAIT | KVM_REQUEST_NO_WAKEUP)
>> -#define KVM_REQ_UPDATE_PROTECTED_GUEST_STATE KVM_ARCH_REQ(34)
>> +#define KVM_REQ_UPDATE_PROTECTED_GUEST_STATE \
>> + KVM_ARCH_REQ_FLAGS(34, KVM_REQUEST_WAIT)
>>
>> #define CR0_RESERVED_BITS \
>> (~(unsigned long)(X86_CR0_PE | X86_CR0_MP | X86_CR0_EM | X86_CR0_TS \
>>
>>
