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From: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: selftests: Verify sregs and events in sync_regs_test
Date: Wed,  2 Sep 2026 17:32:33 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260902120235.18486-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com> (raw)

sync_regs_test has never actually checked the sregs and events halves of
the kvm_run sync region.  compare_sregs() and compare_vcpu_events() have
had empty bodies since the test was written, so the checks run after
every KVM_RUN only ever compared the general purpose registers, and the
events half was never written to at all, hence the standing TODO in
set_and_verify_various().

Patch 1 fills in both comparison helpers.  Patch 2 exercises the events
half by masking NMIs through the sync region and verifying KVM applies
it.

To confirm the new checks catch something rather than merely passing,
the same faults were injected before and after the series on an AMD
host:

  fault injected                      before    after
  sregs.cr4 mismatch                  ignored   caught
  sregs.cs.dpl mismatch               ignored   caught
  events.interrupt.shadow mismatch    ignored   caught
  KVM_SYNC_X86_EVENTS left clean      n/a       caught

Every corruption goes unnoticed before the series and is reported after
it, e.g.

  x86/sync_regs_test.c:128: left->cr4 == right->cr4
  Register cr4 values did not match: 0x41221, 0x41220

Unmodified, the test passes 20/20 consecutive runs with the series
applied, each patch builds and passes on its own, and the remaining x86
selftests are unchanged either way (61 passed, 24 skipped, with
set_sregs_test failing identically before and after for unrelated
reasons).

Hemanth Selam (2):
  KVM: selftests: Actually compare sregs and events in sync_regs_test
  KVM: selftests: Verify the events half of the sync regs region

 .../selftests/kvm/x86/sync_regs_test.c        | 100 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 98 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

-- 
2.43.7


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-02 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-02 12:02 Hemanth Selam [this message]
2026-09-02 12:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: selftests: Actually compare sregs and events in sync_regs_test Hemanth Selam
     [not found]   ` <20260902122209.865E61F00A3E@smtp.kernel.org>
2026-09-03  6:17     ` Hemanth Selam
2026-09-02 12:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: selftests: Verify the events half of the sync regs region Hemanth Selam

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