From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, jmattson@google.com,
joro@8bytes.org, wanpengli@tencent.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: X86: Explicitly set the 'fault.async_page_fault' value in kvm_fixup_and_inject_pf_error().
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:01:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ytb/le8ymDSyx8oJ@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220718074756.53788-1-yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022, Yu Zhang wrote:
> kvm_fixup_and_inject_pf_error() was introduced to fixup the error code(
> e.g., to add RSVD flag) and inject the #PF to the guest, when guest
> MAXPHYADDR is smaller than the host one.
>
> When it comes to nested, L0 is expected to intercept and fix up the #PF
> and then inject to L2 directly if
> - L2.MAXPHYADDR < L0.MAXPHYADDR and
> - L1 has no intention to intercept L2's #PF (e.g., L2 and L1 have the
> same MAXPHYADDR value && L1 is using EPT for L2),
> instead of constructing a #PF VM Exit to L1. Currently, with PFEC_MASK
> and PFEC_MATCH both set to 0 in vmcs02, the interception and injection
> may happen on all L2 #PFs.
>
> However, failing to initialize 'fault' in kvm_fixup_and_inject_pf_error()
> may cause the fault.async_page_fault being NOT zeroed, and later the #PF
> being treated as a nested async page fault, and then being injected to L1.
> Instead of zeroing 'fault' at the beginning of this function, we mannually
> set the value of 'fault.async_page_fault', because false is the value we
> really expect.
>
> Fixes: 897861479c064 ("KVM: x86: Add helper functions for illegal GPA checking and page fault injection")
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216178
> Reported-by: Yang Lixiao <lixiao.yang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
No need for my SoB, I was just providing feedback. Other than that,
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-19 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-18 7:47 [PATCH v2] KVM: X86: Explicitly set the 'fault.async_page_fault' value in kvm_fixup_and_inject_pf_error() Yu Zhang
2022-07-19 19:01 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2022-07-21 9:22 ` Yu Zhang
2022-08-04 3:14 ` Yu Zhang
2022-08-04 15:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-08-05 10:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
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