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From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: nVMX: VMCLEAR should not cause the vCPU to shut down
Date: Thu,  2 Mar 2017 12:41:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170302204148.12015-1-jmattson@google.com> (raw)

VMCLEAR should silently ignore a failure to clear the launch state of
the VMCS referenced by the operand.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 22 ++++------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index ef4ba71dbb66..bca497a92541 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -7259,9 +7259,8 @@ static int handle_vmoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 static int handle_vmclear(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
+	u32 zero = 0;
 	gpa_t vmptr;
-	struct vmcs12 *vmcs12;
-	struct page *page;
 
 	if (!nested_vmx_check_permission(vcpu))
 		return 1;
@@ -7272,22 +7271,9 @@ static int handle_vmclear(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (vmptr == vmx->nested.current_vmptr)
 		nested_release_vmcs12(vmx);
 
-	page = nested_get_page(vcpu, vmptr);
-	if (page == NULL) {
-		/*
-		 * For accurate processor emulation, VMCLEAR beyond available
-		 * physical memory should do nothing at all. However, it is
-		 * possible that a nested vmx bug, not a guest hypervisor bug,
-		 * resulted in this case, so let's shut down before doing any
-		 * more damage:
-		 */
-		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, vcpu);
-		return 1;
-	}
-	vmcs12 = kmap(page);
-	vmcs12->launch_state = 0;
-	kunmap(page);
-	nested_release_page(page);
+	kvm_write_guest(vcpu->kvm,
+			vmptr + offsetof(struct vmcs12, launch_state),
+			&zero, sizeof(zero));
 
 	nested_free_vmcs02(vmx, vmptr);
 
-- 
2.12.0.rc1.440.g5b76565f74-goog

             reply	other threads:[~2017-03-02 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-02 20:41 Jim Mattson [this message]
2017-03-03 16:12 ` [PATCH] kvm: nVMX: VMCLEAR should not cause the vCPU to shut down Radim Krčmář
2017-03-03 16:46   ` Jim Mattson

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