linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: map/unmap private slots in __x86_set_memory

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:45:01 +0200
From:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	aderumier@...so.com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: map/unmap private slots in
 __x86_set_memory_region

2015-10-13 18:28+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 13/10/2015 17:39, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> 2015-10-12 14:09+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
>>> Otherwise, two copies (one of them never used and thus bogus) are
>>> allocated for the regular and SMM address spaces.  This breaks
>>> SMM with EPT but without unrestricted guest support, because the
>>> SMM copy of the identity page map is all zeros.
>> 
>> (Have you found out why EPT+unrestricted didn't use the alternative SMM
>>  mapping as well?)
> 
> Yes, that I already knew; EPT+unrestricted uses CR0.PG=0 directly so
> it doesn't use the identity page at all.  (CR0.PG=0 w/o unrestricted
> instead runs with CR0.PG=1.  CR3 load and store exits are enabled,
> and the guest CR3 always points to the identity page map while the
> guest runs).

Thank you.

>>> +	} else {
>>> +		if (!slot->npages)
>>> +			return 0;
>>> +
>>> +		hva = 0;
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>> +	old = *slot;
>> 
>> (Assignment could be in the 'else' == !size branch, GCC would have fun.)
> 
> It would have fun _and_ warn, which is why it's not in the else branch. :)

I wondered if its "used uninitialized" analyzer got any better :)
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