Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] SMM emulation and interrupt shadow fixes

Maxim Levitsky
2022-07-20T08:47:52Z

On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 14:06 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-06-21 at 18:08 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > This patch series is a result of long debug work to find out why
> > sometimes guests with win11 secure boot
> > were failing during boot.
> >
> > During writing a unit test I found another bug, turns out
> > that on rsm emulation, if the rsm instruction was done in real
> > or 32 bit mode, KVM would truncate the restored RIP to 32 bit.
> >
> > I also refactored the way we write SMRAM so it is easier
> > now to understand what is going on.
> >
> > The main bug in this series which I fixed is that we
> > allowed #SMI to happen during the STI interrupt shadow,
> > and we did nothing to both reset it on #SMI handler
> > entry and restore it on RSM.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >         Maxim Levitsky
> >
> > Maxim Levitsky (11):
> >   KVM: x86: emulator: em_sysexit should update ctxt->mode
> >   KVM: x86: emulator: introduce update_emulation_mode
> >   KVM: x86: emulator: remove assign_eip_near/far
> >   KVM: x86: emulator: update the emulation mode after rsm
> >   KVM: x86: emulator: update the emulation mode after CR0 write
> >   KVM: x86: emulator/smm: number of GPRs in the SMRAM image depends on
> >     the image format
> >   KVM: x86: emulator/smm: add structs for KVM's smram layout
> >   KVM: x86: emulator/smm: use smram struct for 32 bit smram load/restore
> >   KVM: x86: emulator/smm: use smram struct for 64 bit smram load/restore
> >   KVM: x86: SVM: use smram structs
> >   KVM: x86: emulator/smm: preserve interrupt shadow in SMRAM
> >
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |   6 -
> >  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c          | 305 ++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h      | 146 +++++++++++++++
> >  arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c          |  28 +--
> >  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 162 ++++++++---------
> >  5 files changed, 394 insertions(+), 253 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.26.3
> >
> >
> A kind ping on these patches.

Another kind ping on this patch series.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky

>
> Best regards,
>         Maxim Levitsky
>