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x86/kvm/vmx: do not use vm-exit instruction length for fast MMIO when…
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… running nested

I was investigating an issue with seabios >= 1.10 which stopped working
for nested KVM on Hyper-V. The problem appears to be in
handle_ept_violation() function: when we do fast mmio we need to skip
the instruction so we do kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(). This, however,
depends on VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN field being set correctly in VMCS.
However, this is not the case.

Intel's manual doesn't mandate VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN to be set when
EPT MISCONFIG occurs. While on real hardware it was observed to be set,
some hypervisors follow the spec and don't set it; we end up advancing
IP with some random value.

I checked with Microsoft and they confirmed they don't fill
VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN on EPT MISCONFIG.

Fix the issue by doing instruction skip through emulator when running
nested.

Fixes: 68c3b4d
Suggested-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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Vitaly Kuznetsov authored and Radim Krčmář committed Jan 31, 2018
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16 changes: 15 additions & 1 deletion arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
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Expand Up @@ -6577,7 +6577,21 @@ static int handle_ept_misconfig(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (!is_guest_mode(vcpu) &&
!kvm_io_bus_write(vcpu, KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS, gpa, 0, NULL)) {
trace_kvm_fast_mmio(gpa);
return kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
/*
* Doing kvm_skip_emulated_instruction() depends on undefined
* behavior: Intel's manual doesn't mandate
* VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN to be set in VMCS when EPT MISCONFIG
* occurs and while on real hardware it was observed to be set,
* other hypervisors (namely Hyper-V) don't set it, we end up
* advancing IP with some random value. Disable fast mmio when
* running nested and keep it for real hardware in hope that
* VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN will always be set correctly.
*/
if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
return kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
else
return x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, gpa, EMULTYPE_SKIP,
NULL, 0) == EMULATE_DONE;
}

ret = kvm_mmu_page_fault(vcpu, gpa, PFERR_RSVD_MASK, NULL, 0);
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
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Expand Up @@ -5773,7 +5773,8 @@ int x86_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
* handle watchpoints yet, those would be handled in
* the emulate_ops.
*/
if (kvm_vcpu_check_breakpoint(vcpu, &r))
if (!(emulation_type & EMULTYPE_SKIP) &&
kvm_vcpu_check_breakpoint(vcpu, &r))
return r;

ctxt->interruptibility = 0;
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