[PATCH v5 0/3] Introduce Notify VM exit

Chenyi Qiang
2022-03-18T07:44:28Z

Virtual machines can exploit Intel ISA characterstics to cause
functional denial of service to the VMM. This series introduces a new
feature named Notify VM exit, which can help mitigate such kind of
attack.

Patch 1: An extension of KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS ioctl to inject a
synthesized shutdown event from user space. This is also a fix for other
synthesized triple fault, e.g. the RSM patch or nested_vmx_abort(),
which could get lost when exit to userspace to do migrate.

Patch 2: The main patch to enable Notify VM exit.

Patch 3: Add document for the new KVM capability and KVM exit reason.

---
Change logs:
v4 -> v5
- rename KVM_VCPUEVENTS_SHUTDOWN to KVM_VCPUEVENTS_TRIPLE_FAULT. Make it
bidirection and add it to get_vcpu_events. (Sean)
- v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220310084001.10235-1-chenyi.qiang@intel.com/

v3 -> v4
- Change this feature to per-VM scope. (Jim)
- Once VM_CONTEXT_INVALID set in exit_qualification, exit to user space
notify this fatal case, especially the notify VM exit happens in L2.
(Jim)
- extend KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS to allow user space to inject a shutdown
event. (Jim)
- A minor code changes.
- Add document for the new KVM capability.
- v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220223062412.22334-1-chenyi.qiang@intel.com/

v2 -> v3
- add a vcpu state notify_window_exits to record the number of
occurence as well as a pr_warn output. (Sean)
- Add the handling in nested VM to prevent L1 bypassing the restriction
through launching a L2. (Sean)
- Only kill L2 when L2 VM is context invalid, synthesize a
EXIT_REASON_TRIPLE_FAULT to L1 (Sean)
- To ease the current implementation, make module parameter
notify_window read-only. (Sean)
- Disable notify window exit by default.
- v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210525051204.1480610-1-tao3.xu@intel.com/

v1 -> v2
- Default set notify window to 0, less than 0 to disable.
- Add more description in commit message.
---

Chenyi Qiang (2):
KVM: X86: Save&restore the triple fault request
KVM: Add document for KVM_CAP_X86_NOTIFY_VMEXIT and KVM_EXIT_NOTIFY

Tao Xu (1):
KVM: VMX: Enable Notify VM exit

Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 5 ++++
arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h | 7 +++++
arch/x86/include/asm/vmxfeatures.h | 1 +
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 1 +
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h | 4 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h | 6 ++++
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 17 ++++++++++-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++--
arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 5 ++++
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 7 +++++
12 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--
2.17.1