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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: SVM: Check for nested vmrun intercept before emulating vmrun
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:33:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100802203344.GO23755@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C56E1B1.4070805@redhat.com>

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 06:18:09PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 08/02/2010 05:46 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> This patch lets the nested vmrun fail if the L1 hypervisor
>> has not intercepted vmrun. This fixes the "vmrun intercept
>> check" unit test.
>
>> +
>>   static bool nested_svm_vmrun(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>>   {
>>   	struct vmcb *nested_vmcb;
>> @@ -2029,6 +2037,17 @@ static bool nested_svm_vmrun(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>>   	if (!nested_vmcb)
>>   		return false;
>>
>> +	if (!nested_vmcb_checks(nested_vmcb)) {
>> +		nested_vmcb->control.exit_code    = SVM_EXIT_ERR;
>> +		nested_vmcb->control.exit_code_hi = 0;
>> +		nested_vmcb->control.exit_info_1  = 0;
>> +		nested_vmcb->control.exit_info_2  = 0;
>> +
>> +		nested_svm_unmap(page);
>> +
>> +		return false;
>> +	}
>> +
>
> Don't you have to transfer an injected event to exitintinfo?

APM2 seems to be quiet about this. I just tried it out and event_inj
still contains the event after a failed vmrun on real hardware. This
makes sense because this is no real vmexit because the vm was never
entered.

	Joerg


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-02 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02 14:46 [PATCH 0/2] Add some checks before emulating vmrun Joerg Roedel
2010-08-02 14:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: SVM: Check for nested vmrun intercept " Joerg Roedel
2010-08-02 15:18   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-02 20:33     ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2010-08-03  8:16       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-02 14:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: SVM: Check for asid != 0 on nested vmrun Joerg Roedel

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