On 14/09/21 17:48, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
Those are few patches I was working on lately, all somewhat related
to the two CVEs that I found recently.
First 7 patches fix various minor bugs that relate to these CVEs.
The rest of the patches implement various optional SVM features,
some of which the guest could enable anyway due to incorrect
checking of virt_ext field.
Last patch is somewhat an RFC, I would like to hear your opinion
on that.
I also implemented nested TSC scaling while at it.
As for other optional SVM features here is my summary of few features
I took a look at:
X86_FEATURE_DECODEASSISTS:
this feature should make it easier
for the L1 to emulate an instruction on MMIO access, by not
needing to read the guest memory but rather using the instruction
bytes that the CPU already fetched.
The challenge of implementing this is that we sometimes inject
#PF and #NPT syntenically and in those cases we must be sure
we set the correct instruction bytes.
Also this feature adds assists for MOV CR/DR, INTn, and INVLPG,
which aren't that interesting but must be supported as well to
expose this feature to the nested guest.
X86_FEATURE_VGIF
Might allow the L2 to run the L3 a bit faster, but due to crazy complex
logic we already have around int_ctl and vgif probably not worth it.
X86_FEATURE_VMCBCLEAN
Should just be enabled, because otherwise L1 doesn't even attempt
to set the clean bits. But we need to know if we can take an
advantage of these bits first.
X86_FEATURE_FLUSHBYASID
X86_FEATURE_AVIC
These two features would be very good to enable, but that
would require lots of work, and will be done eventually.
There are few more nested SVM features that I didn't yet had a
chance to take a look at.
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
Maxim Levitsky (14):
KVM: x86: nSVM: restore int_vector in svm_clear_vintr
KVM: x86: selftests: test simultaneous uses of V_IRQ from L1 and L0
KVM: x86: nSVM: test eax for 4K alignment for GP errata workaround
KVM: x86: nSVM: don't copy pause related settings
KVM: x86: nSVM: don't copy virt_ext from vmcb12
KVM: x86: SVM: don't set VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts on vCPU reset
KVM: x86: SVM: add warning for CVE-2021-3656
KVM: x86: SVM: add module param to control LBR virtualization
KVM: x86: nSVM: correctly virtualize LBR msrs when L2 is running
KVM: x86: nSVM: implement nested LBR virtualization
KVM: x86: nSVM: implement nested VMLOAD/VMSAVE
KVM: x86: SVM: add module param to control TSC scaling
KVM: x86: nSVM: implement nested TSC scaling
KVM: x86: nSVM: support PAUSE filter threshold and count
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 105 +++++++--
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 218 +++++++++++++++---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 20 +-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile | 1 +
.../selftests/kvm/x86_64/svm_int_ctl_test.c | 128 ++++++++++
8 files changed, 427 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/svm_int_ctl_test.c
Queued more patches, with 9-10-11-14 left now.
Paolo
