linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: MMU: avoid fast page fault fixing mmio page fault

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Message-Id: <1374123157-11142-1-git-send-email-xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:52:37 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	gleb@...hat.com
Cc:	markus@...ppelsdorf.de, mtosatti@...hat.com, pbonzini@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: avoid fast page fault fixing mmio page fault

Currently, fast page fault tries to fix mmio page fault when the
generation number is invalid (spte.gen != kvm.gen) and returns to
guest to retry the fault since it sees the last spte is nonpresent
which causes infinity loop

It can be triggered only on AMD host since the mmio page fault is
recognized as ept-misconfig

Fix it by filtering the mmio page fault out in page_fault_can_be_fast

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index bf7af1e..3a9493a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2811,6 +2811,13 @@ exit:
 static bool page_fault_can_be_fast(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 error_code)
 {
 	/*
+	 * Do not fix the mmio spte with invalid generation number which
+	 * need to be updated by slow page fault path.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(error_code & PFERR_RSVD_MASK))
+		return false;
+
+	/*
 	 * #PF can be fast only if the shadow page table is present and it
 	 * is caused by write-protect, that means we just need change the
 	 * W bit of the spte which can be done out of mmu-lock.
-- 
1.8.1.4

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