From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: fix calls to is_intercept
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 14:51:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo4hbu0q.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200608121428.9214-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> is_intercept takes an INTERCEPT_* constant, not SVM_EXIT_*; because
> of this, the compiler was removing the body of the conditionals,
> as if is_intercept returned 0.
>
> This unveils a latent bug: when clearing the VINTR intercept,
> int_ctl must also be changed in the L1 VMCB (svm->nested.hsave),
> just like the intercept itself is also changed in the L1 VMCB.
> Otherwise V_IRQ remains set and, due to the VINTR intercept being clear,
> we get a spurious injection of a vector 0 interrupt on the next
> L2->L1 vmexit.
>
> Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
> Vitaly, can you give this a shot with Hyper-V? I have already
> placed it on kvm/queue, it passes both svm.flat and KVM-on-KVM
> smoke tests.
Quickly smoke-tested this with WS2016/2019 BIOS/UEFI and the patch
doesn't seem to break anything. I'm having issues trying to launch a
Gen2 (UEFI) VM in Hyper-V (Gen1 works OK) but the behavior looks exactly
the same pre- and post-patch.
--
Vitaly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-08 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-08 12:14 [PATCH] KVM: SVM: fix calls to is_intercept Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-08 12:51 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2020-06-09 7:30 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-06-09 8:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
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