From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>,
Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>,
Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>,
Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>,
Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>,
Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>,
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/16] KVM: x86/mmu: WARN and skip MMIO cache on private, reserved page faults
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 07:51:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZeXt6A_w4etYCYP7@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05449435-008c-4d51-b21f-03df1fa58e77@intel.com>
On Fri, Mar 01, 2024, Kai Huang wrote:
> On 1/03/2024 12:06 pm, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > E.g. in this case, KVM will just skip various fast paths because of the RSVD flag,
> > and treat the fault like a PRIVATE fault. Hmm, but page_fault_handle_page_track()
> > would skip write tracking, which could theoretically cause data corruption, so I
> > guess arguably it would be safer to bail?
> >
> > Anyone else have an opinion? This type of bug should never escape development,
> > so I'm a-ok effectively killing the VM. Unless someone has a good argument for
> > continuing on, I'll go with Kai's suggestion and squash this:
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > index cedacb1b89c5..d796a162b2da 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > @@ -5892,8 +5892,10 @@ int noinline kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t cr2_or_gpa, u64 err
> > error_code |= PFERR_PRIVATE_ACCESS;
> > r = RET_PF_INVALID;
> > - if (unlikely((error_code & PFERR_RSVD_MASK) &&
> > - !WARN_ON_ONCE(error_code & PFERR_PRIVATE_ACCESS))) {
> > + if (unlikely(error_code & PFERR_RSVD_MASK)) {
> > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(error_code & PFERR_PRIVATE_ACCESS))
> > + return -EFAULT;
>
> -EFAULT is part of guest_memfd() memory fault ABI. I didn't think over this
> thoroughly but do you want to return -EFAULT here?
Yes, I/we do. There are many existing paths that can return -EFAULT from KVM_RUN
without setting run->exit_reason to KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT. Userspace is responsible
for checking run->exit_reason on -EFAULT (and -EHWPOISON), i.e. must be prepared
to handle a "bare" -EFAULT, where for all intents and purposes "handle" means
"terminate the guest".
That's actually one of the reasons why KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT exists, it'd require
an absurd amount of work and churn in KVM to *safely* return useful information
on *all* -EFAULTs. FWIW, I had hopes and dreams of actually doing exactly this,
but have long since abandoned those dreams.
In other words, KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT essentially communicates to userspace that
(a) userspace can likely fix whatever badness triggered the -EFAULT, and (b) that
KVM is in a state where fixing the underlying problem and resuming the guest is
safe, e.g. won't corrupt the guest (because KVM is in a half-baked state).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-04 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-28 2:41 [PATCH 00/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Page fault and MMIO cleanups Sean Christopherson
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 01/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Exit to userspace with -EFAULT if private fault hits emulation Sean Christopherson
2024-03-01 8:48 ` Xiaoyao Li
2024-03-07 12:52 ` Gupta, Pankaj
2024-03-12 2:59 ` Binbin Wu
2024-04-04 16:38 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-08 4:22 ` Yan Zhao
2024-04-04 16:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 02/16] KVM: x86: Remove separate "bit" defines for page fault error code masks Sean Christopherson
2024-02-29 12:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-02-29 18:40 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-29 20:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-02-29 13:43 ` Dongli Zhang
2024-02-29 15:25 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 03/16] KVM: x86: Define more SEV+ page fault error bits/flags for #NPF Sean Christopherson
2024-02-28 4:43 ` Dongli Zhang
2024-02-28 16:16 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 04/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Pass full 64-bit error code when handling page faults Sean Christopherson
2024-02-28 7:30 ` Dongli Zhang
2024-02-28 16:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-29 13:32 ` Dongli Zhang
2024-03-05 3:55 ` Xiaoyao Li
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 05/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Use synthetic page fault error code to indicate private faults Sean Christopherson
2024-02-29 11:16 ` Huang, Kai
2024-02-29 15:17 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-06 9:43 ` Xu Yilun
2024-03-06 14:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-07 9:05 ` Xu Yilun
2024-03-07 14:36 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-12 5:34 ` Binbin Wu
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 06/16] KVM: x86/mmu: WARN if upper 32 bits of legacy #PF error code are non-zero Sean Christopherson
2024-02-29 22:11 ` Huang, Kai
2024-02-29 23:07 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-12 5:44 ` Binbin Wu
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 07/16] KVM: x86: Move synthetic PFERR_* sanity checks to SVM's #NPF handler Sean Christopherson
2024-02-29 22:19 ` Huang, Kai
2024-02-29 22:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-29 23:14 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-12 9:44 ` Binbin Wu
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 08/16] KVM: x86/mmu: WARN and skip MMIO cache on private, reserved page faults Sean Christopherson
2024-02-29 22:26 ` Huang, Kai
2024-02-29 23:06 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-29 23:21 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-04 15:51 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2024-03-05 21:32 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-06 0:25 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 09/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Move private vs. shared check above slot validity checks Sean Christopherson
2024-03-05 23:06 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-06 0:38 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-06 1:22 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-06 2:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-06 22:06 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-06 23:49 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-07 0:28 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-08 4:54 ` Xu Yilun
2024-03-08 23:28 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-11 4:43 ` Xu Yilun
2024-03-12 0:08 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 10/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Don't force emulation of L2 accesses to non-APIC internal slots Sean Christopherson
2024-03-07 0:03 ` Huang, Kai
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 11/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Explicitly disallow private accesses to emulated MMIO Sean Christopherson
2024-03-06 22:35 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-06 22:43 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-06 22:49 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-06 23:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-06 23:20 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-07 17:10 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2024-03-08 0:09 ` Huang, Kai
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 12/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Move slot checks from __kvm_faultin_pfn() to kvm_faultin_pfn() Sean Christopherson
2024-03-07 0:11 ` Huang, Kai
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 13/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Handle no-slot faults at the beginning of kvm_faultin_pfn() Sean Christopherson
2024-03-07 0:48 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-07 0:53 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 14/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Set kvm_page_fault.hva to KVM_HVA_ERR_BAD for "no slot" faults Sean Christopherson
2024-03-07 0:50 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-07 1:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 15/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Initialize kvm_page_fault's pfn and hva to error values Sean Christopherson
2024-03-07 0:46 ` Huang, Kai
2024-02-28 2:41 ` [PATCH 16/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Sanity check that __kvm_faultin_pfn() doesn't create noslot pfns Sean Christopherson
2024-03-07 0:46 ` Huang, Kai
2024-04-17 12:48 ` [PATCH 00/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Page fault and MMIO cleanups Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-18 15:40 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-19 6:47 ` Xiaoyao Li
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