From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Unconditionally uninit the MMU on nested vmexit
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:31:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52BEEEE8.7080506@web.de> (raw)
Three reasons for doing this: 1. arch.walk_mmu points to arch.mmu anyway
in case nested EPT wasn't in use. 2. this aligns VMX with SVM. But 3. is
most important: nested_cpu_has_ept(vmcs12) queries the VMCS page, and if
one guest VCPU manipulates the page of another VCPU in L2, we may be
fooled to skip over the nested_ept_uninit_mmu_context, leaving mmu in
nested state. That can crash the host later on if nested_ept_get_cr3 is
invoked while L1 already left vmxon and nested.current_vmcs12 became
NULL therefore.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 1d9b0ec..48d0b46 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -8366,8 +8366,7 @@ static void load_vmcs12_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
vcpu->arch.cr4_guest_owned_bits = ~vmcs_readl(CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK);
kvm_set_cr4(vcpu, vmcs12->host_cr4);
- if (nested_cpu_has_ept(vmcs12))
- nested_ept_uninit_mmu_context(vcpu);
+ nested_ept_uninit_mmu_context(vcpu);
kvm_set_cr3(vcpu, vmcs12->host_cr3);
kvm_mmu_reset_context(vcpu);
--
1.8.1.1.298.ge7eed54
next reply other threads:[~2013-12-28 15:31 UTC|newest]
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2013-12-28 15:31 Jan Kiszka [this message]
2014-01-02 13:22 ` [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Unconditionally uninit the MMU on nested vmexit Marcelo Tosatti
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