From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] nSVM: introduce smv->nested.save to cache save area fields
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 13:39:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbb40bb8c12715c0aa9d6a113784f8a21603e2b3.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210903102039.55422-3-eesposit@redhat.com>
On Fri, 2021-09-03 at 12:20 +0200, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> This is useful in next patch, to avoid having temporary
> copies of vmcb12 registers and passing them manually.
This is NOT what I had in mind, but I do like that idea very much,
IMHO this is much better than what I had in mind!
The only thing that I would change is that I woudn't reuse 'struct vmcb_save_area'
for the copy, as this both wastes space (minor issue),
and introduces a chance of someone later using non copied
fields from it (can cause a bug later on).
I would just define a new struct for that (but keep same names
for readability)
Maybe something like 'struct vmcb_save_area_cached'?
>
> Right now, instead of blindly copying everything,
> we just copy EFER, CR0, CR3, CR4, DR6 and DR7. If more fields
> will need to be added, it will be more obvious to see
> that they must be added in copy_vmcb_save_area,
> otherwise the checks will fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 1 +
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> index d2fe65e2a7a4..2491c77203c7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> @@ -194,6 +194,22 @@ static void copy_vmcb_control_area(struct vmcb_control_area *dst,
> dst->pause_filter_thresh = from->pause_filter_thresh;
> }
>
> +static void copy_vmcb_save_area(struct vmcb_save_area *dst,
> + struct vmcb_save_area *from)
> +{
> + /*
> + * Copy only necessary fields, as we need them
> + * to avoid TOC/TOU races.
> + */
> + dst->efer = from->efer;
> + dst->cr0 = from->cr0;
> + dst->cr3 = from->cr3;
> + dst->cr4 = from->cr4;
> +
> + dst->dr6 = from->dr6;
> + dst->dr7 = from->dr7;
> +}
> +
> static bool nested_svm_vmrun_msrpm(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> {
> /*
> @@ -313,6 +329,12 @@ void nested_load_control_from_vmcb12(struct vcpu_svm *svm,
> svm->nested.ctl.iopm_base_pa &= ~0x0fffULL;
> }
>
> +void nested_load_save_from_vmcb12(struct vcpu_svm *svm,
> + struct vmcb_save_area *save)
> +{
> + copy_vmcb_save_area(&svm->nested.save, save);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Synchronize fields that are written by the processor, so that
> * they can be copied back into the vmcb12.
> @@ -647,6 +669,7 @@ int nested_svm_vmrun(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> nested_load_control_from_vmcb12(svm, &vmcb12->control);
> + nested_load_save_from_vmcb12(svm, &vmcb12->save);
>
> if (!nested_vmcb_valid_sregs(vcpu, &vmcb12->save) ||
> !nested_vmcb_check_controls(vcpu, &svm->nested.ctl)) {
> @@ -1385,6 +1408,7 @@ static int svm_set_nested_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>
> svm_copy_vmrun_state(&svm->vmcb01.ptr->save, save);
> nested_load_control_from_vmcb12(svm, ctl);
> + nested_load_save_from_vmcb12(svm, save);
>
> svm_switch_vmcb(svm, &svm->nested.vmcb02);
> nested_vmcb02_prepare_control(svm);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> index 69639f9624f5..169b930322ef 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> @@ -4386,6 +4386,7 @@ static int svm_leave_smm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const char *smstate)
> vmcb12 = map.hva;
>
> nested_load_control_from_vmcb12(svm, &vmcb12->control);
> + nested_load_save_from_vmcb12(svm, &vmcb12->save);
>
> ret = enter_svm_guest_mode(vcpu, vmcb12_gpa, vmcb12);
> kvm_vcpu_unmap(vcpu, &map, true);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
> index bd0fe94c2920..6d12814cf64c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
> @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ struct svm_nested_state {
>
> /* cache for control fields of the guest */
> struct vmcb_control_area ctl;
> + struct vmcb_save_area save;
>
> bool initialized;
> };
> @@ -484,6 +485,8 @@ int nested_svm_check_exception(struct vcpu_svm *svm, unsigned nr,
> int nested_svm_exit_special(struct vcpu_svm *svm);
> void nested_load_control_from_vmcb12(struct vcpu_svm *svm,
> struct vmcb_control_area *control);
> +void nested_load_save_from_vmcb12(struct vcpu_svm *svm,
> + struct vmcb_save_area *save);
> void nested_sync_control_from_vmcb02(struct vcpu_svm *svm);
> void nested_vmcb02_compute_g_pat(struct vcpu_svm *svm);
> void svm_switch_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm, struct kvm_vmcb_info *target_vmcb);
So besides the struct comment:
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-12 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-03 10:20 [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: nSVM: avoid TOC/TOU race when checking vmcb12 Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-09-03 10:20 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] KVM: nSVM: move nested_vmcb_check_cr3_cr4 logic in nested_vmcb_valid_sregs Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-09-12 10:36 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-03 10:20 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] nSVM: introduce smv->nested.save to cache save area fields Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-09-12 10:39 ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
2021-09-28 16:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-09-28 22:23 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-09-29 11:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-09-03 10:20 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] nSVM: use svm->nested.save to load vmcb12 registers and avoid TOC/TOU races Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-09-12 10:42 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 8:20 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-09-14 9:02 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 9:12 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 9:24 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-09-14 9:34 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 10:52 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-09-14 11:39 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-28 16:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
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