From: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>, y@google.com
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>, Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Properly account NX huge page workaround for nonpaging MMUs
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 21:25:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YvwLZJsCdqgDa18/@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220805230513.148869-5-seanjc@google.com>
On Fri, Aug 05, 2022, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Account and track NX huge pages for nonpaging MMUs so that a future
> enhancement to precisely check if a shadow page can't be replaced by a NX
> huge page doesn't get false positives. Without correct tracking, KVM can
> get stuck in a loop if an instruction is fetching and writing data on the
> same huge page, e.g. KVM installs a small executable page on the fetch
> fault, replaces it with an NX huge page on the write fault, and faults
> again on the fetch.
>
> Alternatively, and perhaps ideally, KVM would simply not enforce the
> workaround for nonpaging MMUs. The guest has no page tables to abuse
> and KVM is guaranteed to switch to a different MMU on CR0.PG being
> toggled so there's no security or performance concerns. However, getting
> make_spte() to play nice now and in the future is unnecessarily complex.
>
> In the current code base, make_spte() can enforce the mitigation if TDP
> is enabled or the MMU is indirect, but make_spte() may not always have a
> vCPU/MMU to work with, e.g. if KVM were to support in-line huge page
> promotion when disabling dirty logging.
>
> Without a vCPU/MMU, KVM could either pass in the correct information
> and/or derive it from the shadow page, but the former is ugly and the
> latter subtly non-trivial due to the possibility of direct shadow pages
> in indirect MMUs. Given that using shadow paging with an unpaged guest
> is far from top priority _and_ has been subjected to the workaround since
> its inception, keep it simple and just fix the accounting glitch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index 53d0dafa68ff..345b6b22ab68 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -3123,7 +3123,7 @@ static int __direct_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault)
> continue;
>
> link_shadow_page(vcpu, it.sptep, sp);
> - if (fault->is_tdp && fault->huge_page_disallowed)
> + if (fault->huge_page_disallowed)
> account_nx_huge_page(vcpu->kvm, sp,
> fault->req_level >= it.level);
> }
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c
> index 7314d27d57a4..52186b795bce 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c
> @@ -147,6 +147,18 @@ bool make_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp,
> if (!prefetch)
> spte |= spte_shadow_accessed_mask(spte);
>
> + /*
> + * For simplicity, enforce the NX huge page mitigation even if not
> + * strictly necessary. KVM could ignore the mitigation if paging is
> + * disabled in the guest, as the guest doesn't have an page tables to
> + * abuse. But to safely ignore the mitigation, KVM would have to
> + * ensure a new MMU is loaded (or all shadow pages zapped) when CR0.PG
> + * is toggled on, and that's a net negative for performance when TDP is
> + * enabled. When TDP is disabled, KVM will always switch to a new MMU
> + * when CR0.PG is toggled, but leveraging that to ignore the mitigation
> + * would tie make_spte() further to vCPU/MMU state, and add complexity
> + * just to optimize a mode that is anything but performance critical.
> + */
> if (level > PG_LEVEL_4K && (pte_access & ACC_EXEC_MASK) &&
> is_nx_huge_page_enabled(vcpu->kvm)) {
> pte_access &= ~ACC_EXEC_MASK;
> --
> 2.37.1.559.g78731f0fdb-goog
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-16 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-05 23:05 [PATCH v3 0/8] KVM: x86: Apply NX mitigation more precisely Sean Christopherson
2022-08-05 23:05 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Bug the VM if KVM attempts to double count an NX huge page Sean Christopherson
2022-08-14 0:53 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-08-05 23:05 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Tag disallowed NX huge pages even if they're not tracked Sean Christopherson
2022-08-14 0:53 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-08-05 23:05 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Rename NX huge pages fields/functions for consistency Sean Christopherson
2022-08-14 1:12 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-08-15 21:54 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-08-16 21:09 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-08-17 16:13 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-08-18 22:13 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-08-18 23:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-08-19 18:30 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-08-20 1:04 ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-08-05 23:05 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Properly account NX huge page workaround for nonpaging MMUs Sean Christopherson
2022-08-16 21:25 ` Mingwei Zhang [this message]
2022-08-05 23:05 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Set disallowed_nx_huge_page in TDP MMU before setting SPTE Sean Christopherson
2022-08-09 3:26 ` Yan Zhao
2022-08-09 12:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-08-09 14:44 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-08-09 14:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-08-09 15:05 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-08-05 23:05 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Track the number of TDP MMU pages, but not the actual pages Sean Christopherson
2022-08-05 23:05 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Add helper to convert SPTE value to its shadow page Sean Christopherson
2022-08-05 23:05 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] KVM: x86/mmu: explicitly check nx_hugepage in disallowed_hugepage_adjust() Sean Christopherson
2022-08-09 12:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-08-09 14:49 ` Sean Christopherson
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