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KVM: VMX: Fix host msr corruption with preemption enabled
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Switching msrs can occur either synchronously as a result of calls to
the msr management functions (usually in response to the guest touching
virtualized msrs), or asynchronously when preempting a kvm thread that has
guest state loaded.  If we're unlucky enough to have the two at the same
time, host msrs are corrupted and the machine goes kaput on the next syscall.

Most easily triggered by Windows Server 2008, as it does a lot of msr
switching during bootup.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Avi Kivity committed Jun 24, 2008
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19 changes: 11 additions & 8 deletions arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
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Expand Up @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static void vmx_save_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
load_transition_efer(vmx);
}

static void vmx_load_host_state(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
static void __vmx_load_host_state(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
{
unsigned long flags;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -596,6 +596,13 @@ static void vmx_load_host_state(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
reload_host_efer(vmx);
}

static void vmx_load_host_state(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
{
preempt_disable();
__vmx_load_host_state(vmx);
preempt_enable();
}

/*
* Switches to specified vcpu, until a matching vcpu_put(), but assumes
* vcpu mutex is already taken.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -654,7 +661,7 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)

static void vmx_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
vmx_load_host_state(to_vmx(vcpu));
__vmx_load_host_state(to_vmx(vcpu));
}

static void vmx_fpu_activate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -884,11 +891,8 @@ static int vmx_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr_index, u64 data)
switch (msr_index) {
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
case MSR_EFER:
vmx_load_host_state(vmx);
ret = kvm_set_msr_common(vcpu, msr_index, data);
if (vmx->host_state.loaded) {
reload_host_efer(vmx);
load_transition_efer(vmx);
}
break;
case MSR_FS_BASE:
vmcs_writel(GUEST_FS_BASE, data);
Expand All @@ -910,11 +914,10 @@ static int vmx_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr_index, u64 data)
guest_write_tsc(data);
break;
default:
vmx_load_host_state(vmx);
msr = find_msr_entry(vmx, msr_index);
if (msr) {
msr->data = data;
if (vmx->host_state.loaded)
load_msrs(vmx->guest_msrs, vmx->save_nmsrs);
break;
}
ret = kvm_set_msr_common(vcpu, msr_index, data);
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