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From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
To: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Cc: "kvm list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: nVMX: Check GUEST_DR7 on vmentry of nested guests
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 08:56:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMp9eQ-eJEusJnhDuVzxnF6Fa4VHdzx+dw5fMmRSFSB5DUthg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9eb99666-7af8-6a59-51ee-f5285d9a67f0@oracle.com>

On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 9:11 PM Krish Sadhukhan
<krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com> wrote:

> It seems like a good solution. The only problem I see in this is that
> using the reserved bits is not guaranteed to work forever as the
> hardware vendors can decide to use them anytime.

Unlikely, but point taken.

> Instead, I was wondering whether we could set bits 31:0 in the first
> entry in the VM-entry MSR-load area of vmcs02 to a value of C0000100H.
> According to Intel SDM, this will cause VM-entry to fail:
>
>             "The value of bits 31:0 is either C0000100H (the
> IA32_FS_BASE MSR) or C0000101 (the IA32_GS_BASE MSR)."
>
> We can use bits 127:64 of that entry to indicate which MSR entry in the
> vmcs12 MSR-load area had an error and then we synthesize an exit
> qualification from that information.

That seems reasonable to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-09 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-29 20:56 [PATCH 0/4] KVM: nVMX: Check GUEST_DEBUGCTL and GUEST_DR7 on vmentry of nested guests Krish Sadhukhan
2019-08-29 20:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: nVMX: Check GUEST_DEBUGCTL " Krish Sadhukhan
2019-08-29 22:12   ` Jim Mattson
2019-08-30 23:26     ` Krish Sadhukhan
2019-09-01 23:55       ` Jim Mattson
2019-08-29 20:56 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: nVMX: Check GUEST_DR7 " Krish Sadhukhan
2019-08-29 22:26   ` Jim Mattson
2019-08-30 23:07     ` Krish Sadhukhan
2019-08-30 23:15       ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-02  0:33         ` Jim Mattson
     [not found]           ` <e229bea2-acb2-e268-6281-d8e467c3282e@oracle.com>
2019-09-04 16:44             ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-04 16:58               ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-04 18:05               ` Krish Sadhukhan
2019-09-04 18:20                 ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-09  4:11                   ` Krish Sadhukhan
2019-09-09 15:56                     ` Jim Mattson [this message]
2019-09-04 17:14           ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-20 23:45         ` Jim Mattson
2019-12-21  0:27   ` Jim Mattson
2019-08-29 20:56 ` [PATCH 3/4] kvm-unit-test: nVMX: __enter_guest() should not set "launched" state when VM-entry fails Krish Sadhukhan
2019-09-04 15:42   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-13 20:37     ` Krish Sadhukhan
2019-09-13 21:06       ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-16 19:12         ` Krish Sadhukhan
2019-08-29 20:56 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvm-unit-test: nVMX: Check GUEST_DEBUGCTL and GUEST_DR7 on vmentry of nested guests Krish Sadhukhan
2019-08-29 23:17   ` Jim Mattson
2019-08-30  1:12     ` Nadav Amit

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