Re: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: shadow nested paging does not have PKU

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On 2021/11/26 21:21, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Initialize the mask for PKU permissions as if CR4.PKE=0, avoiding
incorrect interpretations of the nested hypervisor's page tables.

I think the AMD64 volume2 Architecture Programmer’s Manual does not
specify it, but it seems that for a sane NPT walk, PKU should not work
in NPT.

I once planed to set
	
	cr0 = X86_CR0_PG | X86_CR0_WP;
	cr4 = cr4 & ~(X86_CR4_SMEP | X86_CR4_SMAP | X86_CR4_PKE);

It adds X86_CR0_WP and removes smep smap just because it is always usermode
access, and it has no meaning for CR0_WP, smep, smap.  Setting it like this
ways can reduce the role combination.


Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 5942e9c6dd6e..a33b5361bc67 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -4855,7 +4855,7 @@ void kvm_init_shadow_npt_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr0,
  	struct kvm_mmu *context = &vcpu->arch.guest_mmu;
  	struct kvm_mmu_role_regs regs = {
  		.cr0 = cr0,
-		.cr4 = cr4,
+		.cr4 = cr4 & ~X86_CR4_PKE,
  		.efer = efer,
  	};
  	union kvm_mmu_role new_role;
@@ -4919,7 +4919,7 @@ void kvm_init_shadow_ept_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool execonly,
  	context->direct_map = false;
update_permission_bitmask(context, true);
-	update_pkru_bitmask(context);
+	context->pkru_mask = 0;

It is not worth to optimize it since update_pkru_bitmask() will also just
set context->pkru_mask = 0 and then return.

  	reset_rsvds_bits_mask_ept(vcpu, context, execonly);
  	reset_ept_shadow_zero_bits_mask(vcpu, context, execonly);
  }




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