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Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor

From Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor
Date 2017-07-11 20:30 +0200
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Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> writes:
....
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * If the (L2) guest does a vmfunc to the currently
>>> +	 * active ept pointer, we don't have to do anything else
>>> +	 */
>>> +	if (vmcs12->ept_pointer != address) {
>>> +		if (address >> cpuid_maxphyaddr(vcpu) ||
>>> +		    !IS_ALIGNED(address, 4096))
>>
>> Couldn't the pfn still be invalid and make kvm_mmu_reload() fail?
>> (triggering a KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT)
>
> If there's a triple fault, I think it's a good idea to inject it
> back. Basically, there's no need to take care of damage control
> that L1 is intentionally doing.
>
>>> +			goto fail;
>>> +		kvm_mmu_unload(vcpu);
>>> +		vmcs12->ept_pointer = address;
>>> +		kvm_mmu_reload(vcpu);
>>
>> I was thinking about something like this:
>>
>> kvm_mmu_unload(vcpu);
>> old = vmcs12->ept_pointer;
>> vmcs12->ept_pointer = address;
>> if (kvm_mmu_reload(vcpu)) {
>> 	/* pointer invalid, restore previous state */
>> 	kvm_clear_request(KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, vcpu);
>> 	vmcs12->ept_pointer = old;
>> 	kvm_mmu_reload(vcpu);
>> 	goto fail;
>> }
>>
>> The you can inherit the checks from mmu_check_root().

Actually, thinking about this a bit more, I agree with you. Any fault
with a vmfunc operation should end with a vmfunc vmexit, so this
is a good thing to have. Thank you for this idea! :)

Bandan

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[PATCH v4 0/3] Expose VMFUNC to the nested hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-10 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM: nVMX: Enable VMFUNC for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-10 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: vmx: Enable VMFUNCs Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-10 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-10 23:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 10:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 10:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 16:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 20:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 21:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 21:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 20:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 20:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 21:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 22:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 22:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 22:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 22:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 23:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-07-12 15:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-12 20:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-07-12 21:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-17 20:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> - 2017-07-11 20:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 20:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 21:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 21:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 22:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 22:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-07-12 15:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-12 20:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1  hypervisor David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> - 2017-07-13 17:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-07-13 19:10 +0200

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