linux-kernel - [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 26/26] KVM: X86: Restart the guest when insn

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:03:03 -0500
From:   Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        \"Radim Krčmář\" 
        <rkrcmar@...hat.com>, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
Subject: [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 26/26] KVM: X86: Restart the guest when insn_len is zero and SEV is enabled

On AMD platform, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF.
This can happen if guest gets a page-fault on data access, but HW table
walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instuction page
is not present in memory).

Typically, when insn_len is zero, x86_emulate_instruction() walks the
guest page table and fetches the instruction bytes from guest memory.
When SEV is enabled, the guest memory is encrypted with guest-specific
key hence hypervisor will not able to fetch the instruction bytes.
In those cases we simply restart the guest.

I have encountered this issue when running kernbench inside the guest.

Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index ccb70b8..be41ad0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -4850,6 +4850,23 @@ int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u64 error_code,
 	if (mmio_info_in_cache(vcpu, cr2, direct))
 		emulation_type = 0;
 emulate:
+	/*
+	 * On AMD platform, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF.
+	 * This can happen if guest gets a page-fault on data access, but HW table
+	 * walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instuction page
+	 * is not present).
+	 *
+	 * Typically, when insn_len is zero, x86_emulate_instruction() walks the
+	 * guest page table and fetches the instruction bytes. When SEV is active,
+	 * the guest memory is encrypted with guest key hence we will not able to
+	 * fetch the instruction bytes. In those cases we simply restart the guest.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(!insn_len)) {
+		if (kvm_x86_ops->memory_encryption_enabled &&
+			kvm_x86_ops->memory_encryption_enabled(vcpu))
+			return 1;
+	}
+
 	er = x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, cr2, emulation_type, insn, insn_len);
 
 	switch (er) {
-- 
2.9.4