Re: Intel KVM entry failed, hardware error 0x0

Sean Christopherson
2020-05-06T03:32:54Z

On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 08:00:15PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 10:32:15PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> > Today’s linux-next started to fail with this config,
> >
> > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cailca/linux-mm/master/kcsan.config
> >
> > qemu-kvm-2.12.0-99.module+el8.2.0+5827+8c39933c.x86_64
> >
> > I believe it was working yesterday. Before I bury myself bisecting it, does
> > anyone have any thought?
>
> It reproduces for me as well with my vanilla config in a VM. I can debug
> and/or bisect, should be quite quick in a VM.
>
> VM is bailing on the EPT Violation at the reset vector, i.e. on the very
> first exit. Presumably KVM is incorrectly setting vmx->fail somewhere.

The __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER in the VM-Exit path was recently modified and
changed how it clobbered EFLAGS, which causes KVM to think VM-Enter failed.
Commit 089dd8e53126 ("x86/speculation: Change FILL_RETURN_BUFFER to work
with objtool") introduced the change, but this is really a bug in KVM. The
VM-Exit path shouldn't rely on __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER to set EFLAGS to a
specific state, i.e. EFLAGS was always being clobbered, it just happened to
work before now.

I'll get a patch sent out shortly.