[PATCH] KVM: x86: never trap MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: never trap MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:38:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1537803519-17941-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)

KVM has an old optimization whereby accesses to the kernel GS base MSR
are trapped when the guest is in 32-bit and not when it is in 64-bit mode.
The idea is that swapgs is not available in 32-bit mode and thus the
guest has no reason to access the MSR unless in 64-bit mode.  Therefore
32-bit applications need not pay the price of switching the kernel GS
base between the host and the guest values, 64-bit applications.

However, this optimization adds complexity to the code for little
benefit (these days most guests are going to be 64-bit anyway) and in fact
broke after commit 678e315e78a7 ("KVM: vmx: add dedicated utility to
access guest's kernel_gs_base", 2018-08-06); the guest kernel GS base
can be corrupted across SMIs and UEFI Secure Boot is therefore broken
(a secure boot Linux guest, for example, fails to reach the login prompt
about half the time).  This patch just removes the optimization; the
kernel GS base MSR is now never trapped by KVM, similarly to the FS and
GS base MSRs.

Fixes: 678e315e78a780dbef384b92339c8414309dbc11
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 47 ++++++++++-------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 06412ba46aa3..8b066480224b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@
 
 #define MSR_BITMAP_MODE_X2APIC		1
 #define MSR_BITMAP_MODE_X2APIC_APICV	2
-#define MSR_BITMAP_MODE_LM		4
 
 #define KVM_VMX_TSC_MULTIPLIER_MAX     0xffffffffffffffffULL
 
@@ -2899,8 +2898,7 @@ static void vmx_prepare_switch_to_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		vmx->msr_host_kernel_gs_base = read_msr(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE);
 	}
 
-	if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu))
-		wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
+	wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
 #else
 	savesegment(fs, fs_sel);
 	savesegment(gs, gs_sel);
@@ -2951,8 +2949,7 @@ static void vmx_prepare_switch_to_host(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 	vmx->loaded_cpu_state = NULL;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu))
-		rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
+	rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
 #endif
 	if (host_state->ldt_sel || (host_state->gs_sel & 7)) {
 		kvm_load_ldt(host_state->ldt_sel);
@@ -2980,24 +2977,19 @@ static void vmx_prepare_switch_to_host(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 static u64 vmx_read_guest_kernel_gs_base(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 {
-	if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu)) {
-		preempt_disable();
-		if (vmx->loaded_cpu_state)
-			rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE,
-			       vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
-		preempt_enable();
-	}
+	preempt_disable();
+	if (vmx->loaded_cpu_state)
+		rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base);
+	preempt_enable();
 	return vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base;
 }
 
 static void vmx_write_guest_kernel_gs_base(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx, u64 data)
 {
-	if (is_long_mode(&vmx->vcpu)) {
-		preempt_disable();
-		if (vmx->loaded_cpu_state)
-			wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, data);
-		preempt_enable();
-	}
+	preempt_disable();
+	if (vmx->loaded_cpu_state)
+		wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, data);
+	preempt_enable();
 	vmx->msr_guest_kernel_gs_base = data;
 }
 #endif
@@ -5073,19 +5065,6 @@ static void vmx_set_efer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 efer)
 	if (!msr)
 		return;
 
-	/*
-	 * MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE is not intercepted when the guest is in
-	 * 64-bit mode as a 64-bit kernel may frequently access the
-	 * MSR.  This means we need to manually save/restore the MSR
-	 * when switching between guest and host state, but only if
-	 * the guest is in 64-bit mode.  Sync our cached value if the
-	 * guest is transitioning to 32-bit mode and the CPU contains
-	 * guest state, i.e. the cache is stale.
-	 */
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	if (!(efer & EFER_LMA))
-		(void)vmx_read_guest_kernel_gs_base(vmx);
-#endif
 	vcpu->arch.efer = efer;
 	if (efer & EFER_LMA) {
 		vm_entry_controls_setbit(to_vmx(vcpu), VM_ENTRY_IA32E_MODE);
@@ -6078,9 +6057,6 @@ static u8 vmx_msr_bitmap_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 			mode |= MSR_BITMAP_MODE_X2APIC_APICV;
 	}
 
-	if (is_long_mode(vcpu))
-		mode |= MSR_BITMAP_MODE_LM;
-
 	return mode;
 }
 
@@ -6121,9 +6097,6 @@ static void vmx_update_msr_bitmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (!changed)
 		return;
 
-	vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, MSR_TYPE_RW,
-				  !(mode & MSR_BITMAP_MODE_LM));
-
 	if (changed & (MSR_BITMAP_MODE_X2APIC | MSR_BITMAP_MODE_X2APIC_APICV))
 		vmx_update_msr_bitmap_x2apic(msr_bitmap, mode);
 
-- 
1.8.3.1

