Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: set rflags to specify success in handle_invvpid() default case

[linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com>]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 23/01/20 09:55, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> > Your patch seems to do the right thing, however, I started wondering 
> > if
> > WARN_ON_ONCE() is the right thing to do. SDM says that "If an 
> > unsupported INVVPID type is specified, the instruction fails." and 
> > this is similar to INVEPT and I decided to check what handle_invept() 
> > does. Well, it does BUG_ON().
> > 
> > Are we doing the right thing in any of these cases?
>
> Yes, both INVEPT and INVVPID catch this earlier.
>
> For INVEPT:
>
>         types = (vmx->nested.msrs.ept_caps >> VMX_EPT_EXTENT_SHIFT) & 6;
>
>         if (type >= 32 || !(types & (1 << type)))
>                 return nested_vmx_failValid(vcpu,
>                                 VMXERR_INVALID_OPERAND_TO_INVEPT_INVVPID);
>
>
>
> For INVVPID:
>
>         types = (vmx->nested.msrs.vpid_caps &
>                         VMX_VPID_EXTENT_SUPPORTED_MASK) >> 8;
>
>         if (type >= 32 || !(types & (1 << type)))
>                 return nested_vmx_failValid(vcpu,
>                         VMXERR_INVALID_OPERAND_TO_INVEPT_INVVPID);
>
> So I'm leaning towards not applying Miaohe's patch.  Happy Mouse Year to everyone, here is an ASCII art (except for one Unicode character) mouse:
>
>
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>
> Thanks,

Yes, it seems my patch is meaningless. And thanks for both of your review and reply.
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