Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] KVM: selftests: Test pmu event filter with incompatible kvm_pmu_event_filter

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, Jinrong Liang wrote:
> From: Jinrong Liang <cloudliang@tencent.com>
> 
> From: Jinrong Liang <cloudliang@tencent.com>
> 
> Add test to verify the behavior of the pmu event filter when an
> incomplete kvm_pmu_event_filter structure is used. By running the
> test, we can ensure that the pmu event filter correctly handles
> incomplete structures and does not allow events to be counted when
> they should not be.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jinrong Liang <cloudliang@tencent.com>
> ---
>  .../kvm/x86_64/pmu_event_filter_test.c        | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/pmu_event_filter_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/pmu_event_filter_test.c
> index 9be4c6f8fb7e..a6b6e0d086ae 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/pmu_event_filter_test.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/pmu_event_filter_test.c
> @@ -881,6 +881,24 @@ static bool fixed_ctr_is_allowed(uint8_t idx, uint32_t action, uint32_t bitmap)
>  		(action == KVM_PMU_EVENT_DENY && !(bitmap & BIT_ULL(idx)));
>  }
>  
> +struct incompatible_pmu_event_filter {
> +	__u32 action;
> +	__u32 nevents;
> +	__u32 fixed_counter_bitmap;
> +};
> +
> +static uint64_t test_incompatible_filter(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, uint32_t action,
> +					 uint32_t bitmap)
> +{
> +	struct incompatible_pmu_event_filter err_f;
> +
> +	err_f.action = action;
> +	err_f.fixed_counter_bitmap = bitmap;
> +	ioctl((vcpu->vm)->fd, KVM_SET_PMU_EVENT_FILTER, &err_f.action);

This is completely busted.  It "passes" by luck, not because it's a valid test.
The size of the argument is embedded in the IOCTL number itself, which means that
unless glibc is being very nice and using a macro + typeof + sizeof to sanity check
things, which I highly doubt is the case, this ioctl() is passing random stack data,
a.k.a. garbage, to KVM.

In short, drop this patch.