Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: nVMX: Fix setting of CR0 and CR4 in guest mode

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On 2013-03-05 14:02, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:57:03PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:40:29PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> The logic for calculating the value with which we call kvm_set_cr0/4 was
>>> broken (will definitely be visible with nested unrestricted guest mode
>>> support). Also, we performed the check regarding CR0_ALWAYSON too early
>>> when in guest mode.
>>>
>>> What really needs to be done on both CR0 and CR4 is to mask out L1-owned
>>> bits and merge them in from GUEST_CR0/4. In contrast, arch.cr0/4 and
>>> arch.cr0/4_guest_owned_bits contain the mangled L0+L1 state and, thus,
>>> are not suited as input.
>>>
>>> For both CRs, we can then apply the check against VMXON_CRx_ALWAYSON and
>>> refuse the update if it fails. To be fully consistent, we implement this
>>> check now also for CR4.
>>>
>>> Finally, we have to set the shadow to the value L2 wanted to write
>>> originally.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Changes in v2:
>>>  - keep the non-misleading part of the comment in handle_set_cr0
>>>
>>>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |   46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>>>  1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>>> index 7cc566b..832b7b4 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>>> @@ -4605,37 +4605,53 @@ vmx_patch_hypercall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned char *hypercall)
>>>  /* called to set cr0 as appropriate for a mov-to-cr0 exit. */
>>>  static int handle_set_cr0(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long val)
>>>  {
>>> -	if (to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.vmxon &&
>>> -	    ((val & VMXON_CR0_ALWAYSON) != VMXON_CR0_ALWAYSON))
>>> -		return 1;
>>> -
>>>  	if (is_guest_mode(vcpu)) {
>>> +		struct vmcs12 *vmcs12 = get_vmcs12(vcpu);
>>> +		unsigned long orig_val = val;
>>> +
>>>  		/*
>>>  		 * We get here when L2 changed cr0 in a way that did not change
>>>  		 * any of L1's shadowed bits (see nested_vmx_exit_handled_cr),
>>> -		 * but did change L0 shadowed bits. This can currently happen
>>> -		 * with the TS bit: L0 may want to leave TS on (for lazy fpu
>>> -		 * loading) while pretending to allow the guest to change it.
>>> +		 * but did change L0 shadowed bits.
>>>  		 */
>>> -		if (kvm_set_cr0(vcpu, (val & vcpu->arch.cr0_guest_owned_bits) |
>>> -			 (vcpu->arch.cr0 & ~vcpu->arch.cr0_guest_owned_bits)))
>>> +		val = (val & ~vmcs12->cr0_guest_host_mask) |
>>> +			(vmcs_read64(GUEST_CR0) & vmcs12->cr0_guest_host_mask);
>>> +		if ((val & VMXON_CR0_ALWAYSON) != VMXON_CR0_ALWAYSON)
>>>  			return 1;
>> The more I look at it the more it looks correct to me. I will continue
>> looking, but I think we can move VMXON_CR0_ALWAYSON check to
>> vmx_set_cr0(). Same for cr4 case.
>>
> BTW would be nice to have unit test for nested :)

Yeah, and I want a pony. :)

Possible, but "a bit" more complex than what it takes to write native tests.

Jan

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