Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] KVM: x86: improve reexecute_instruction

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On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:38:36PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> The current reexecute_instruction can not well detect the failed instruction
> emulation. It allows guest to retry all the instructions except it accesses
> on error pfn
> 
> For example, some cases are nested-write-protect - if the page we want to
> write is used as PDE but it chains to itself. Under this case, we should
> stop the emulation and report the case to userspace
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    7 +++++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h      |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |    8 +++++++-
>  3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index c431b33..d6ab8d2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -502,6 +502,13 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
>  		u64 msr_val;
>  		struct gfn_to_hva_cache data;
>  	} pv_eoi;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Indicate whether the access faults on its page table in guest
> +	 * which is set when fix page fault and used to detect unhandeable
> +	 * instruction.
> +	 */
> +	bool write_fault_to_shadow_pgtable;
>  };
> 
>  struct kvm_lpage_info {
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> index 67b390d..df50560 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> @@ -497,26 +497,34 @@ out_gpte_changed:
>   * created when kvm establishes shadow page table that stop kvm using large
>   * page size. Do it early can avoid unnecessary #PF and emulation.
>   *
> + * @write_fault_to_shadow_pgtable will return true if the fault gfn is
> + * currently used as its page table.
> + *
>   * Note: the PDPT page table is not checked for PAE-32 bit guest. It is ok
>   * since the PDPT is always shadowed, that means, we can not use large page
>   * size to map the gfn which is used as PDPT.
>   */
>  static bool
>  FNAME(is_self_change_mapping)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> -			      struct guest_walker *walker, int user_fault)
> +			      struct guest_walker *walker, int user_fault,
> +			      bool *write_fault_to_shadow_pgtable)
>  {
>  	int level;
>  	gfn_t mask = ~(KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(walker->level) - 1);
> +	bool self_changed = false;
> 
>  	if (!(walker->pte_access & ACC_WRITE_MASK ||
>  	      (!is_write_protection(vcpu) && !user_fault)))
>  		return false;
> 
> -	for (level = walker->level; level <= walker->max_level; level++)
> -		if (!((walker->gfn ^ walker->table_gfn[level - 1]) & mask))
> -			return true;
> +	for (level = walker->level; level <= walker->max_level; level++) {
> +		gfn_t gfn = walker->gfn ^ walker->table_gfn[level - 1];
> +
> +		self_changed |= !(gfn & mask);
> +		*write_fault_to_shadow_pgtable |= !gfn;
> +	}
> 
> -	return false;
> +	return self_changed;
>  }
> 
>  /*
> @@ -544,7 +552,7 @@ static int FNAME(page_fault)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr, u32 error_code,
>  	int level = PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL;
>  	int force_pt_level;
>  	unsigned long mmu_seq;
> -	bool map_writable;
> +	bool map_writable, is_self_change_mapping;
> 
>  	pgprintk("%s: addr %lx err %x\n", __func__, addr, error_code);
> 
> @@ -572,9 +580,14 @@ static int FNAME(page_fault)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr, u32 error_code,
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> 
> +	vcpu->arch.write_fault_to_shadow_pgtable = false;
> +
> +	is_self_change_mapping = FNAME(is_self_change_mapping)(vcpu,
> +	      &walker, user_fault, &vcpu->arch.write_fault_to_shadow_pgtable);
> +
>  	if (walker.level >= PT_DIRECTORY_LEVEL)
>  		force_pt_level = mapping_level_dirty_bitmap(vcpu, walker.gfn)
> -		   || FNAME(is_self_change_mapping)(vcpu, &walker, user_fault);
> +		   || is_self_change_mapping;
>  	else
>  		force_pt_level = 1;
>  	if (!force_pt_level) {
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 6f13e03..2957012 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -4810,7 +4810,13 @@ static bool reexecute_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2)
>  	 * guest to let CPU execute the instruction.
>  	 */
>  	kvm_mmu_unprotect_page(vcpu->kvm, gpa_to_gfn(gpa));
> -	return true;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If the access faults on its page table, it can not
> +	 * be fixed by unprotecting shadow page and it should
> +	 * be reported to userspace.
> +	 */
> +	return !vcpu->arch.write_fault_to_shadow_pgtable;
>  }

This sounds wrong: only reporting emulation failure in case 
of a write fault to shadow pagetable? 

The current pattern is sane:

if (condition_1 which allows reexecution is true)
	return true;

if (condition_2 which allows reexecution is true)
	return true;
...
	return false;

Applied 1-2.
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