[PATCH 5.17 37/75] KVM: x86: Drop WARNs that assert a triple fault never "escapes" from L2

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-03T18:08:54Z

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

commit 45846661d10422ce9e22da21f8277540b29eca22 upstream.

Remove WARNs that sanity check that KVM never lets a triple fault for L2
escape and incorrectly end up in L1. In normal operation, the sanity
check is perfectly valid, but it incorrectly assumes that it's impossible
for userspace to induce KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT without bouncing through
KVM_RUN (which guarantees kvm_check_nested_state() will see and handle
the triple fault).

The WARN can currently be triggered if userspace injects a machine check
while L2 is active and CR4.MCE=0. And a future fix to allow save/restore
of KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, e.g. so that a synthesized triple fault isn't
lost on migration, will make it trivially easy for userspace to trigger
the WARN.

Clearing KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT when forcibly leaving guest mode is
tempting, but wrong, especially if/when the request is saved/restored,
e.g. if userspace restores events (including a triple fault) and then
restores nested state (which may forcibly leave guest mode). Ignoring
the fact that KVM doesn't currently provide the necessary APIs, it's
userspace's responsibility to manage pending events during save/restore.

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1399 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c:4522 nested_vmx_vmexit+0x7fe/0xd90 [kvm_intel]
Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
CPU: 7 PID: 1399 Comm: state_test Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3+ #808
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
RIP: 0010:nested_vmx_vmexit+0x7fe/0xd90 [kvm_intel]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
vmx_leave_nested+0x30/0x40 [kvm_intel]
vmx_set_nested_state+0xca/0x3e0 [kvm_intel]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0xf49/0x13e0 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4b9/0x660 [kvm]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x83/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fixes: cb6a32c2b877 ("KVM: x86: Handle triple fault in L2 without killing L1")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220407002315.78092-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 3 ---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 3 ---
2 files changed, 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -790,9 +790,6 @@ int nested_svm_vmexit(struct vcpu_svm *s
struct kvm_host_map map;
int rc;

- /* Triple faults in L2 should never escape. */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, vcpu));
-
rc = kvm_vcpu_map(vcpu, gpa_to_gfn(svm->nested.vmcb12_gpa), &map);
if (rc) {
if (rc == -EINVAL)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -4518,9 +4518,6 @@ void nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *
/* trying to cancel vmlaunch/vmresume is a bug */
WARN_ON_ONCE(vmx->nested.nested_run_pending);

- /* Similarly, triple faults in L2 should never escape. */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, vcpu));
-
if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES, vcpu)) {
/*
* KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES is also used to map