linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: vmx: hyper-v: don't pass EPT configuration info to vmx_hv_remote_flush

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Date:   Thu, 11 Oct 2018 20:07:36 +0800
From:   Tianyu Lan <lantianyu1986@...il.com>
To:     vkuznets@...hat.com
Cc:     kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@...hat.com>, kys@...rosoft.com,
        haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        Michael.H.Kelley@...rosoft.com,
        Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r kernel org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: vmx: hyper-v: don't pass EPT configuration info to vmx_hv_remote_flush_tlb()

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 6:32 PM Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> I'm observing random crashes in multi-vCPU L2 guests running on KVM on
> Hyper-V. I bisected the issue to the commit 877ad952be3d ("KVM: vmx: Add
> tlb_remote_flush callback support"). Hyper-V TLFS states:
>
> "AddressSpace specifies an address space ID (an EPT PML4 table pointer)"
>
> So apparently, Hyper-V doesn't expect us to pass naked EPTP, only PML4
> pointer should be used. Strip off EPT configuration information before
> calling into vmx_hv_remote_flush_tlb().

Hi Vitaly:
:               Thanks to fix this. Sorry, I didn't meet the issue..
I think we may just store EPT PML4 table pointer without EPT
configuration information
in the ept_pointer field for this case.

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 619307b3e6bb..e316058b41a6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -5379,7 +5379,7 @@ static void vmx_set_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
unsigned long cr3)

                if (kvm_x86_ops->tlb_remote_flush) {
                        spin_lock(&to_kvm_vmx(kvm)->ept_pointer_lock);
-                       to_vmx(vcpu)->ept_pointer = eptp;
+                       to_vmx(vcpu)->ept_pointer = cr3;
                        to_kvm_vmx(kvm)->ept_pointers_match
                                = EPT_POINTERS_CHECK;
                        spin_unlock(&to_kvm_vmx(kvm)->ept_pointer_lock);



>
> Fixes: 877ad952be3d ("KVM: vmx: Add tlb_remote_flush callback support")
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index 612fd17be635..e665aa7167cf 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -1572,8 +1572,12 @@ static int vmx_hv_remote_flush_tlb(struct kvm *kvm)
>                 goto out;
>         }
>
> +       /*
> +        * FLUSH_GUEST_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS_SPACE hypercall needs the address of the
> +        * base of EPT PML4 table, strip off EPT configuration information.
> +        */
>         ret = hyperv_flush_guest_mapping(
> -                       to_vmx(kvm_get_vcpu(kvm, 0))->ept_pointer);
> +                       to_vmx(kvm_get_vcpu(kvm, 0))->ept_pointer & PAGE_MASK);
>
>  out:
>         spin_unlock(&to_kvm_vmx(kvm)->ept_pointer_lock);
> --
> 2.17.1
>


-- 
Best regards
Tianyu Lan