Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: WARN on any attempt to allocate shadow VMCS for vmcs02

[Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>]

Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> writes:

> WARN if KVM attempts to allocate a shadow VMCS for vmcs02.  KVM emulates
> VMCS shadowing but doesn't virtualize it, i.e. KVM should never allocate
> a "real" shadow VMCS for L2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> index f235f77cbc03..92ee0d821a06 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> @@ -4851,18 +4851,20 @@ static struct vmcs *alloc_shadow_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	struct loaded_vmcs *loaded_vmcs = vmx->loaded_vmcs;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * We should allocate a shadow vmcs for vmcs01 only when L1
> -	 * executes VMXON and free it when L1 executes VMXOFF.
> -	 * As it is invalid to execute VMXON twice, we shouldn't reach
> -	 * here when vmcs01 already have an allocated shadow vmcs.
> +	 * KVM allocates a shadow VMCS only when L1 executes VMXON and frees it
> +	 * when L1 executes VMXOFF or the vCPU is forced out of nested
> +	 * operation.  VMXON faults if the CPU is already post-VMXON, so it
> +	 * should be impossible to already have an allocated shadow VMCS.  KVM
> +	 * doesn't support virtualization of VMCS shadowing, so vmcs01 should
> +	 * always be the loaded VMCS.
>  	 */
> -	WARN_ON(loaded_vmcs == &vmx->vmcs01 && loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs);
> +	if (WARN_ON(loaded_vmcs != &vmx->vmcs01 || loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs))
> +		return loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs;

Stupid question: why do we want to care about 'loaded_vmcs' at all,
i.e. why can't we hardcode 'vmx->vmcs01' in alloc_shadow_vmcs()? The
only caller is enter_vmx_operation() and AFAIU 'loaded_vmcs' will always
be pointing to 'vmx->vmcs01' (as enter_vmx_operation() allocates
&vmx->nested.vmcs02 so 'loaded_vmcs' can't point there!).

> +
> +	loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs = alloc_vmcs(true);
> +	if (loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs)
> +		vmcs_clear(loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs);
>  
> -	if (!loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs) {
> -		loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs = alloc_vmcs(true);
> -		if (loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs)
> -			vmcs_clear(loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs);
> -	}
>  	return loaded_vmcs->shadow_vmcs;
>  }
>  
>
> base-commit: edb9e50dbe18394d0fc9d0494f5b6046fc912d33

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Vitaly