Messages in this thread | | | From | Jim Mattson <> | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2019 12:21:18 -0800 | Subject | Re: [Part2 PATCH v9 38/38] KVM: X86: Restart the guest when insn_len is zero and SEV is enabled |
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 5:07 PM Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com> wrote: > > On AMD platforms, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF. > This can happen if a guest gets a page-fault on data access but the HW > table walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instruction > page is not present in memory). > > Typically, when insn_len is zero, x86_emulate_instruction() walks the > guest page table and fetches the instruction bytes from guest memory. > When SEV is enabled, the guest memory is encrypted with guest-specific > key hence hypervisor will not able to fetch the instruction bytes. > In those cases we simply restart the guest. > > I have encountered this issue when running kernbench inside the guest. > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> > Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com> > Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com> > --- > arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 10 ++++++++++ > arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 6 ++++-- > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c > index e5e66e5c6640..d5e5dbd0e5ad 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c > @@ -4950,6 +4950,16 @@ int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u64 error_code, > if (mmio_info_in_cache(vcpu, cr2, direct)) > emulation_type = 0; > emulate: > + /* > + * On AMD platforms, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF. > + * This can happen if a guest gets a page-fault on data access but the HW > + * table walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instruction > + * page is not present in memory). In those cases we simply restart the > + * guest. > + */ > + if (unlikely(insn && !insn_len)) > + return 1; > +
How does this work, for instance, with MMIO at CPL3 with SMAP enabled?
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