[PATCH 5.10 228/236] KVM: nVMX: Unconditionally clear nested.pi_pending on nested VM-Enter

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-09-13T13:50:14Z

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

commit f7782bb8d818d8f47c26b22079db10599922787a upstream.

Clear nested.pi_pending on nested VM-Enter even if L2 will run without
posted interrupts enabled. If nested.pi_pending is left set from a
previous L2, vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt() will pick up the
stale flag and exit to userspace with an "internal emulation error" due
the new L2 not having a valid nested.pi_desc.

Arguably, vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt() should first check for
posted interrupts being enabled, but it's also completely reasonable that
KVM wouldn't screw up a fundamental flag. Not to mention that the mere
existence of nested.pi_pending is a long-standing bug as KVM shouldn't
move the posted interrupt out of the IRR until it's actually processed,
e.g. KVM effectively drops an interrupt when it performs a nested VM-Exit
with a "pending" posted interrupt. Fixing the mess is a future problem.

Prior to vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt() interpreting a null PI
descriptor as an error, this was a benign bug as the null PI descriptor
effectively served as a check on PI not being enabled. Even then, the
new flow did not become problematic until KVM started checking the result
of kvm_check_nested_events().

Fixes: 705699a13994 ("KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing")
Fixes: 966eefb89657 ("KVM: nVMX: Disable vmcs02 posted interrupts if vmcs12 PID isn't mappable")
Fixes: 47d3530f86c0 ("KVM: x86: Exit to userspace when kvm_check_nested_events fails")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210810144526.2662272-1-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -2243,12 +2243,11 @@ static void prepare_vmcs02_early(struct
~PIN_BASED_VMX_PREEMPTION_TIMER);

/* Posted interrupts setting is only taken from vmcs12. */
- if (nested_cpu_has_posted_intr(vmcs12)) {
+ vmx->nested.pi_pending = false;
+ if (nested_cpu_has_posted_intr(vmcs12))
vmx->nested.posted_intr_nv = vmcs12->posted_intr_nv;
- vmx->nested.pi_pending = false;
- } else {
+ else
exec_control &= ~PIN_BASED_POSTED_INTR;
- }
pin_controls_set(vmx, exec_control);

/*