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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	srutherford@google.com, joro@8bytes.org, brijesh.singh@amd.com,
	thomas.lendacky@amd.com, venu.busireddy@oracle.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: guest interface for SEV live migration
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:49:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YH9aj8FLQ4z4Po/x@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b96c4fc-23a4-0bd2-ea58-fa6d81e50b15@redhat.com>

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 20/04/21 22:16, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > > In this particular case, if userspace sets the bit in CPUID2 but doesn't
> > > > handle KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL, the guest will probably trigger some kind of
> > > > assertion failure as soon as it invokes the HC_PAGE_ENC_STATUS hypercall.
> > 
> > Oh!  Almost forgot my hail mary idea.  Instead of a new capability, can we
> > reject the hypercall if userspace has _not_ set KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID?
> > 
> > 			if (vcpu->arch.pv_cpuid.enforce &&
> > 			    !guest_pv_has(vcpu, KVM_FEATURE_HC_PAGE_ENC_STATUS)
> > 				break;
> 
> Couldn't userspace enable that capability and _still_ copy the supported
> CPUID blindly to the guest CPUID, without supporting the hypercall?

Yes.  I was going to argue that we get to define the behavior, but that's not
true because it would break existing VMMs that blindly copy.  Capability it is...

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-20 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20 11:20 [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: guest interface for SEV live migration Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-20 15:15 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-20 18:27   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-20 17:31 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-20 18:11   ` Ashish Kalra
2021-04-20 18:40     ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-20 18:58       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-20 18:39   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-20 19:02     ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-20 20:16       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-20 20:58         ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-20 22:49           ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2021-04-20 23:20             ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-21 12:03               ` Paolo Bonzini

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