Re: [PATCH v3 10/21] KVM:x86: Add #CP support in guest exception classification

["Yang, Weijiang" <weijiang.yang@intel.com>]

On 6/30/2023 6:27 PM, Chao Gao wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 05:34:28PM +0800, Yang, Weijiang wrote:
>> On 6/17/2023 2:57 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023, Weijiang Yang wrote:
>>>> On 6/16/2023 7:58 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 08, 2023, Weijiang Yang wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/6/2023 5:08 PM, Chao Gao wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:08:46AM -0400, Yang Weijiang wrote:
>>>>>>>> Add handling for Control Protection (#CP) exceptions(vector 21).
>>>>>>>> The new vector is introduced for Intel's Control-Flow Enforcement
>>>>>>>> Technology (CET) relevant violation cases.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Although #CP belongs contributory exception class, but the actual
>>>>>>>> effect is conditional on CET being exposed to guest. If CET is not
>>>>>>>> available to guest, #CP falls back to non-contributory and doesn't
>>>>>>>> have an error code.
>>>>>>> This sounds weird. is this the hardware behavior? If yes, could you
>>>>>>> point us to where this behavior is documented?
>>>>>> It's not SDM documented behavior.
>>>>> The #CP behavior needs to be documented.  Please pester whoever you need to in
>>>>> order to make that happen.
>>>> Do you mean documentation for #CP as an generic exception or the behavior in
>>>> KVM as this patch shows?
>>> As I pointed out two *years* ago, this entry in the SDM
>>>
>>>     — The field's deliver-error-code bit (bit 11) is 1 if each of the following
>>>       holds: (1) the interruption type is hardware exception; (2) bit 0
>>>       (corresponding to CR0.PE) is set in the CR0 field in the guest-state area;
>>>       (3) IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] is read as 0 (see Appendix A.1); and (4) the vector
>>>       indicates one of the following exceptions: #DF (vector 8), #TS (10),
>>>       #NP (11), #SS (12), #GP (13), #PF (14), or #AC (17).
>>>
>>> needs to read something like
>>>
>>>     — The field's deliver-error-code bit (bit 11) is 1 if each of the following
>>>       holds: (1) the interruption type is hardware exception; (2) bit 0
>>>       (corresponding to CR0.PE) is set in the CR0 field in the guest-state area;
>>>       (3) IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] is read as 0 (see Appendix A.1); and (4) the vector
>>>       indicates one of the following exceptions: #DF (vector 8), #TS (10),
>>>       #NP (11), #SS (12), #GP (13), #PF (14), #AC (17), or #CP (21)[1]
>>>
>>>       [1] #CP has an error code if and only if IA32_VMX_CR4_FIXED1 enumerates
>>>           support for the 1-setting of CR4.CET.
>> Hi, Sean,
>>
>> I sent above change request to Gil(added in cc), but he shared different
>> opinion on this issue:
>>
>>
>> "It is the case that all CET-capable parts enumerate IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] as 1.
>>
>>   However, there were earlier parts without CET that enumerated
>> IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] as 0.
>>
>>   On those parts, an attempt to inject an exception with vector 21 (#CP) with
>> an error code would fail.
>>
>> (Injection of exception 21 with no error code would be allowed.)
>>
>>   It may make things clearer if we document the statement above (all
>> CET-capable parts enumerate IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] as 1).
>>
>> I will see if we can update future revisions of the SDM to clarify this."
>>
>>
>> Then if this is the case,  kvm needs to check IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] before
>> inject exception to nested VM.
> And KVM can hide CET from guests if IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] is 0.

Yes, this scratch patch didn't cover cross-check with CET enabling, thanks!

>
>> And this patch could be removed, instead need another patch like below:
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
>> b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
>> index ad35355ee43e..6b33aacc8587 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
>> @@ -1076,6 +1076,7 @@
>>   #define VMX_BASIC_MEM_TYPE_MASK    0x003c000000000000LLU
>>   #define VMX_BASIC_MEM_TYPE_WB    6LLU
>>   #define VMX_BASIC_INOUT        0x0040000000000000LLU
>> +#define VMX_BASIC_CHECK_ERRCODE    0x0140000000000000LLU
>>
>>   /* Resctrl MSRs: */
>>   /* - Intel: */
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
>> b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
>> index 85cffeae7f10..4b1ed4dc03bc 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
>> @@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ static inline bool cpu_has_vmx_basic_inout(void)
>>       return    (((u64)vmcs_config.basic_cap << 32) & VMX_BASIC_INOUT);
>>   }
>>
>> +static inline bool cpu_has_vmx_basic_check_errcode(void)
>> +{
>> +    return    (((u64)vmcs_config.basic_cap << 32) &
>> VMX_BASIC_CHECK_ERRCODE);
>> +}
>> +
>>   static inline bool cpu_has_virtual_nmis(void)
>>   {
>>       return vmcs_config.pin_based_exec_ctrl & PIN_BASED_VIRTUAL_NMIS &&
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
>> index 78524daa2cb2..92aa4fc3d233 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
>> @@ -1227,9 +1227,9 @@ static int vmx_restore_vmx_basic(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx,
>> u64 data)
>>   {
>>       const u64 feature_and_reserved =
>>           /* feature (except bit 48; see below) */
>> -        BIT_ULL(49) | BIT_ULL(54) | BIT_ULL(55) |
>> +        BIT_ULL(49) | BIT_ULL(54) | BIT_ULL(55) | BIT_ULL(56) |
>>           /* reserved */
>> -        BIT_ULL(31) | GENMASK_ULL(47, 45) | GENMASK_ULL(63, 56);
>> +        BIT_ULL(31) | GENMASK_ULL(47, 45) | GENMASK_ULL(63, 57);
>>       u64 vmx_basic = vmcs_config.nested.basic;
>>
>>       if (!is_bitwise_subset(vmx_basic, data, feature_and_reserved))
>> @@ -2873,7 +2873,8 @@ static int nested_check_vm_entry_controls(struct
>> kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>           should_have_error_code =
>>               intr_type == INTR_TYPE_HARD_EXCEPTION && prot_mode &&
>>               x86_exception_has_error_code(vector);
>> -        if (CC(has_error_code != should_have_error_code))
>> +        if (!cpu_has_vmx_basic_check_errcode() &&
> We can skip computing should_have_error_code. and we should check if
> IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] is set for this vCPU (i.e. in vmx->nested.msrs.basic)
> rather than host/kvm capability.

Oops, I confused myself, yes, need to reshape the code a bit and use 
msrs.basic

to check the bit status, thanks!

>
>> +            CC(has_error_code != should_have_error_code))
>>               return -EINVAL;
>>
>>           /* VM-entry exception error code */
>> @@ -6986,6 +6987,8 @@ static void nested_vmx_setup_basic(struct
>> nested_vmx_msrs *msrs)
>>
>>       if (cpu_has_vmx_basic_inout())
>>           msrs->basic |= VMX_BASIC_INOUT;
>> +    if (cpu_has_vmx_basic_check_errcode())
>> +        msrs->basic |= VMX_BASIC_CHECK_ERRCODE;
>>   }
>>
>>   static void nested_vmx_setup_cr_fixed(struct nested_vmx_msrs *msrs)
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
>> index d70f2e94b187..95c0eab7805c 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
>> @@ -2748,7 +2748,7 @@ static int setup_vmcs_config(struct vmcs_config
>> *vmcs_conf,
>>       rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC, misc_msr);
>>
>>       vmcs_conf->size = vmx_msr_high & 0x1fff;
>> -    vmcs_conf->basic_cap = vmx_msr_high & ~0x1fff;
>> +    vmcs_conf->basic_cap = vmx_msr_high & ~0x7fff;
>>
>>       vmcs_conf->revision_id = vmx_msr_low;
>>
>>