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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Leonardo Bras <leobras@redhat.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: Fix XSAVE related bugs
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:31:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YwYMInTCevZ/FYNl@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220824033057.3576315-1-seanjc@google.com>

* Sean Christopherson (seanjc@google.com) wrote:
> Patch 2 (from Dave) is the headliner and fixes a bug where KVM clear the
> FP+SSE bits in user_xfeatures when XSAVE is hidden from the guest and thus
> prevent userspace from saving/restoring FP+SSE state on XSAVE host.  This
> most visibily manifests as a failed migration (KVM_GET_XSAVE succeeds on a
> non-XSAVE host and KVM_SET_XSAVE fails on an XSAVE host), but also causes
> KVM_GET_SAVE on XSAVE hosts to effectively corrupt guest FP+SSE state.
> 
> Patch 1 fixes a mostly theoretical bug, and is also a prerequisite for
> patch 2.
> 
> Patch 3 fixes a bug found by inspection when staring at all of this.  KVM
> fails to check CR4.OSXSAVE when emulating XSETBV (the interception case
> gets away without the check because the intercept happens after hardware
> checks CR4).

Thanks for pulling those together; the set of 3 passes my same (light) smoke test.

Dave
> 
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert (1):
>   KVM: x86: Always enable legacy FP/SSE in allowed user XFEATURES
> 
> Sean Christopherson (2):
>   KVM: x86: Reinstate kvm_vcpu_arch.guest_supported_xcr0
>   KVM: x86: Inject #UD on emulated XSETBV if XSAVES isn't enabled
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  1 +
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c            | 11 ++++++++---
>  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c          |  3 +++
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 10 +++-------
>  4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 372d07084593dc7a399bf9bee815711b1fb1bcf2
> -- 
> 2.37.1.595.g718a3a8f04-goog
> 
-- 
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-24 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-24  3:30 [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: Fix XSAVE related bugs Sean Christopherson
2022-08-24  3:30 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: x86: Reinstate kvm_vcpu_arch.guest_supported_xcr0 Sean Christopherson
2022-08-24  3:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: x86: Always enable legacy FP/SSE in allowed user XFEATURES Sean Christopherson
2022-08-24  3:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: Inject #UD on emulated XSETBV if XSAVES isn't enabled Sean Christopherson
2022-08-24 11:31 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2022-09-20 19:19   ` [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: Fix XSAVE related bugs Sean Christopherson
2022-09-22 21:04 ` Paolo Bonzini

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