Re: [PATCH v3 10/21] KVM:x86: Add #CP support in guest exception classification

Sean Christopherson
2023-06-16T18:58:06Z

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023, Weijiang Yang wrote:
>
> On 6/16/2023 7:58 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 08, 2023, Weijiang Yang wrote:
> > > On 6/6/2023 5:08 PM, Chao Gao wrote:
> > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:08:46AM -0400, Yang Weijiang wrote:
> > > > > Add handling for Control Protection (#CP) exceptions(vector 21).
> > > > > The new vector is introduced for Intel's Control-Flow Enforcement
> > > > > Technology (CET) relevant violation cases.
> > > > >
> > > > > Although #CP belongs contributory exception class, but the actual
> > > > > effect is conditional on CET being exposed to guest. If CET is not
> > > > > available to guest, #CP falls back to non-contributory and doesn't
> > > > > have an error code.
> > > > This sounds weird. is this the hardware behavior? If yes, could you
> > > > point us to where this behavior is documented?
> > > It's not SDM documented behavior.
> > The #CP behavior needs to be documented. Please pester whoever you need to in
> > order to make that happen.
>
> Do you mean documentation for #CP as an generic exception or the behavior in
> KVM as this patch shows?

As I pointed out two *years* ago, this entry in the SDM

— The field's deliver-error-code bit (bit 11) is 1 if each of the following
holds: (1) the interruption type is hardware exception; (2) bit 0
(corresponding to CR0.PE) is set in the CR0 field in the guest-state area;
(3) IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] is read as 0 (see Appendix A.1); and (4) the vector
indicates one of the following exceptions: #DF (vector 8), #TS (10),
#NP (11), #SS (12), #GP (13), #PF (14), or #AC (17).

needs to read something like

— The field's deliver-error-code bit (bit 11) is 1 if each of the following
holds: (1) the interruption type is hardware exception; (2) bit 0
(corresponding to CR0.PE) is set in the CR0 field in the guest-state area;
(3) IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] is read as 0 (see Appendix A.1); and (4) the vector
indicates one of the following exceptions: #DF (vector 8), #TS (10),
#NP (11), #SS (12), #GP (13), #PF (14), #AC (17), or #CP (21)[1]

[1] #CP has an error code if and only if IA32_VMX_CR4_FIXED1 enumerates
support for the 1-setting of CR4.CET.