Re: [PATCH V3 08/12] KVM: X86/MMU: Allocate mmu->pae_root for PAE paging on-demand

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2022, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Allocate a page to hold the four PDPTEs for PAE paging when emulating
> > +	 * 32-bit mode.  CR3 is only 32 bits even on x86_64 in this case.
> > +	 * Therefore we need to allocate the PDP table in the first 4GB of
> > +	 * memory, which happens to fit the DMA32 zone.
> > +	 */
> > +	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_DMA32);
> 
> Leave off __GFP_ZERO, it's unnecesary in both cases, and actively misleading in
> when TDP is disabled.  KVM _must_ write the page after making it decrypted.  And
> since I can't find any code that actually does initialize "pae_root", I suspect
> this series is buggy.
> 
> But if there is a bug, it was introduced earlier in this series, either by
> 
>   KVM: X86/MMU: Add local shadow pages
> 
> or by
> 
>   KVM: X86/MMU: Activate local shadow pages and remove old logic
> 
> depending on whether you want to blame the function that is buggy, or the patch
> that uses the buggy function..
> 
> The right place to initialize the root is kvm_mmu_alloc_local_shadow_page().
> KVM sets __GFP_ZERO for mmu_shadow_page_cache, i.e. relies on new sp->spt pages
> to be zeroed prior to "allocating" from the cache.
> 
> The PAE root backing page on the other hand is allocated once and then reused
> over and over.
> 
> 	if (role.level == PT32E_ROOT_LEVEL &&
> 	    !WARN_ON_ONCE(!vcpu->arch.mmu->pae_root)) {
> 		sp->spt = vcpu->arch.mmu->pae_root;
> 		kvm_mmu_initialize_pae_root(sp->spt): <==== something like this
> 	} else {
> 		sp->spt = kvm_mmu_memory_cache_alloc(&vcpu->arch.mmu_shadow_page_cache);
> 	}

Ah, I believe this is handled for the non-SME case in mmu_free_local_root_page().
But that won't play nice with the decryption path.  And either way, the PDPDTEs
should be explicitly initialized/zeroed when the shadow page is "allocated"

> > -	for (i = 0; i < 4; ++i)
> > -		mmu->pae_root[i] = INVALID_PAE_ROOT;
> 
> Please remove this code in a separate patch.  I don't care if it is removed before
> or after (I'm pretty sure the existing behavior is paranoia), but I don't want
> multiple potentially-functional changes in this patch.