From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
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: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:16:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C57D061.9030907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100802203344.GO23755@8bytes.org>
On 08/02/2010 11:33 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> 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.
Well, my copy says
> The VMRUN instruction then checks the guest state just loaded. If an
> illegal state has been loaded, the
> processor exits back to the host (see “#VMEXIT” on page 374).
This matches "illegal state" and "#VMEXIT" but doesn't match "guest state".
> 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.
Okay; will apply the patches.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 8:16 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
2010-08-03 8:16 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-08-02 14:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: SVM: Check for asid != 0 on nested vmrun Joerg Roedel
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