[PATCH 5.4 1/1] KVM: x86: do not report a vCPU as preempted outside instruction boundaries

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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6cd88243c7e03845a450795e134b488fc2afb736 upstream.

If a vCPU is outside guest mode and is scheduled out, it might be in the
process of making a memory access.  A problem occurs if another vCPU uses
the PV TLB flush feature during the period when the vCPU is scheduled
out, and a virtual address has already been translated but has not yet
been accessed, because this is equivalent to using a stale TLB entry.

To avoid this, only report a vCPU as preempted if sure that the guest
is at an instruction boundary.  A rescheduling request will be delivered
to the host physical CPU as an external interrupt, so for simplicity
consider any vmexit *not* instruction boundary except for external
interrupts.

It would in principle be okay to report the vCPU as preempted also
if it is sleeping in kvm_vcpu_block(): a TLB flush IPI will incur the
vmentry/vmexit overhead unnecessarily, and optimistic spinning is
also unlikely to succeed.  However, leave it for later because right
now kvm_vcpu_check_block() is doing memory accesses.  Even
though the TLB flush issue only applies to virtual memory address,
it's very much preferrable to be conservative.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
[OP: use VCPU_STAT() for debugfs entries]
Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  3 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c              |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          |  1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 4bc476d7fa6c..80239c84b4dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
 	u64 ia32_misc_enable_msr;
 	u64 smbase;
 	u64 smi_count;
+	bool at_instruction_boundary;
 	bool tpr_access_reporting;
 	u64 ia32_xss;
 	u64 microcode_version;
@@ -981,6 +982,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat {
 	u64 irq_injections;
 	u64 nmi_injections;
 	u64 req_event;
+	u64 preemption_reported;
+	u64 preemption_other;
 };
 
 struct x86_instruction_info;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index c5a9de8d0725..e9444e202c33 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -6246,7 +6246,8 @@ static int svm_check_intercept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 
 static void svm_handle_exit_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
-
+	if (to_svm(vcpu)->vmcb->control.exit_code == SVM_EXIT_INTR)
+		vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = true;
 }
 
 static void svm_sched_in(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 9bd08d264603..c93070829790 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -6358,6 +6358,7 @@ static void handle_external_interrupt_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	);
 
 	kvm_after_interrupt(vcpu);
+	vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = true;
 }
 STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(handle_external_interrupt_irqoff);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index f5e9590a8f31..d152afdfa8b4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -207,6 +207,8 @@ struct kvm_stats_debugfs_item debugfs_entries[] = {
 	{ "nmi_injections", VCPU_STAT(nmi_injections) },
 	{ "req_event", VCPU_STAT(req_event) },
 	{ "l1d_flush", VCPU_STAT(l1d_flush) },
+	{ "preemption_reported", VCPU_STAT(preemption_reported) },
+	{ "preemption_other", VCPU_STAT(preemption_other) },
 	{ "mmu_shadow_zapped", VM_STAT(mmu_shadow_zapped) },
 	{ "mmu_pte_write", VM_STAT(mmu_pte_write) },
 	{ "mmu_pde_zapped", VM_STAT(mmu_pde_zapped) },
@@ -3562,6 +3564,19 @@ static void kvm_steal_time_set_preempted(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	struct kvm_host_map map;
 	struct kvm_steal_time *st;
 
+	/*
+	 * The vCPU can be marked preempted if and only if the VM-Exit was on
+	 * an instruction boundary and will not trigger guest emulation of any
+	 * kind (see vcpu_run).  Vendor specific code controls (conservatively)
+	 * when this is true, for example allowing the vCPU to be marked
+	 * preempted if and only if the VM-Exit was due to a host interrupt.
+	 */
+	if (!vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary) {
+		vcpu->stat.preemption_other++;
+		return;
+	}
+
+	vcpu->stat.preemption_reported++;
 	if (!(vcpu->arch.st.msr_val & KVM_MSR_ENABLED))
 		return;
 
@@ -8446,6 +8461,13 @@ static int vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	vcpu->arch.l1tf_flush_l1d = true;
 
 	for (;;) {
+		/*
+		 * If another guest vCPU requests a PV TLB flush in the middle
+		 * of instruction emulation, the rest of the emulation could
+		 * use a stale page translation. Assume that any code after
+		 * this point can start executing an instruction.
+		 */
+		vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = false;
 		if (kvm_vcpu_running(vcpu)) {
 			r = vcpu_enter_guest(vcpu);
 		} else {
-- 
2.39.1




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