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Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: nVMX: Fix losing NMI blocking state

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2017-07-25 18:55 GMT+08:00 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>:
> On 25/07/2017 12:40, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> Commit 4c4a6f790ee862 (KVM: nVMX: track NMI blocking state separately for each VMCS)
>> tracks NMI blocking state separately for vmcs01 and vmcs02. However it is not enough:
>>
>>  - The L2 (kvm-unit-tests/eventinj.flat) generates NMI that will fault on IRET, so the
>>    L2 can generate #PF which can be intercepted by L0.
>>  - L0 walks L1's guest page table and sees the mapping is invalid, it resumes the L1
>>    guest and injects the #PF into L1.
>>  - L1 awares it should set bit 3 (blocking by NMI) in the interruptibility-state field
>>    and fix the shadow page table before resuming L2 guest.
>>  - L1 executes VMRESUME to resume L2 which generates vmexit and causes L1 exit to L0
>>  - L0 emulates VMRESUME which is called from L1, however, it lost the interruptibility
>>    state field which is updated in vmcs12 when prepare vmcs02
>>  - .........
>
> The "..." part is not very enlightening.  My understanding is:
>
>  - The L2 (kvm-unit-tests/eventinj.flat) generates NMI that will fault
>    on IRET, so the L2 can generate #PF which can be intercepted by L0.
>  - L0 walks L1's guest page table and sees the mapping is invalid, it
>    resumes the L1 guest and injects the #PF into L1.  At this point the
>    vmcs02 has nmi_known_unmasked=true.
>  - L1 sets set bit 3 (blocking by NMI) in the interruptibility-state field
>    of vmcs12 (and fixes the shadow page table) before resuming L2 guest.
>  - L1 executes VMRESUME to resume L2, causing a vmexit to L0
>  - during VMRESUME emulation, prepare_vmcs02 sets bit 3 in the
>    interruptibility-state field of vmcs02, but nmi_known_unmasked is
>    still true.
>  - on the next L2 exit to L0, nmi_known_unmasked is true so
>    vmx_recover_nmi_blocking does not do anything.

Thanks for that. :)

>
> Can you explain instead what happens if your v1 patch is applied (on top of mine),
> and why it fixes the bug.

We will set the expected guest interruptibility-state field before the
final step: L0 fixes the shadow page table (NGVA -> HPA), then L0
resumes the guest w/ the expected guest interruptibility-state.

>
> The patch is correct and almost obvious, but I'd like the commit message to be precise.
>
> (Also, does your machine have shadow VMCS support?)

A Haswell desktop w/ shadow vmcs enabled.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

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[PATCH v2] KVM: nVMX: Fix losing NMI blocking state Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 12:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: nVMX: Fix losing NMI blocking state Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-07-25 13:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: nVMX: Fix losing NMI blocking state Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2017-07-25 13:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: nVMX: Fix losing NMI blocking state Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-07-25 15:10 +0200

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