Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: SEV-ES: Fix LBRV code

Ravi Bangoria
2024-05-31T04:07:00Z

On 5/30/2024 7:33 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 5/23/24 07:18, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>> As documented in APM[1], LBR Virtualization must be enabled for SEV-ES
>> guests. Although KVM currently enforces LBRV for SEV-ES guests, there
>> are multiple issues with it:
>>
>> o MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR is still intercepted. Since MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR
>>    interception is used to dynamically toggle LBRV for performance reasons,
>>    this can be fatal for SEV-ES guests. For ex SEV-ES guest on Zen3:
>>
>>    [guest ~]# wrmsr 0x1d9 0x4
>>    KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0xffffffff
>>    EAX=00000004 EBX=00000000 ECX=000001d9 EDX=00000000
>>
>>    Fix this by never intercepting MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR for SEV-ES guests.
>>    No additional save/restore logic is required since MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR
>>    is of swap type A.
>>
>> o KVM will disable LBRV if userspace sets MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR before the
>>    VMSA is encrypted. Fix this by moving LBRV enablement code post VMSA
>>    encryption.
>>
>> [1]: AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Pub. 40332, Rev. 4.07 - June
>>       2023, Vol 2, 15.35.2 Enabling SEV-ES.
>>       https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=304653
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
>
> Should this have a Fixes: tag, too?

Yeah, will add
Fixes: 376c6d285017 ("KVM: SVM: Provide support for SEV-ES vCPU creation/loading")

Thanks,
Ravi