linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: always stop emulation on page fault

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Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:23:40 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Denis Lunev <den@...tuozzo.com>,
        Roman Kagan <rkagan@...tuozzo.com>,
        Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@...tuozzo.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yi Wang <wang.yi59@....com.cn>, Peng Hao <peng.hao2@....com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: always stop emulation on page fault

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:19:51AM +0000, Jan Dakinevich wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 07:50:30 -0700
> Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com> wrote:
> > Yikes, this patch and the previous have quite the sordid history.
> > 
> > 
> > The non-void return from inject_emulated_exception() was added by commit
> > 
> >   ef54bcfeea6c ("KVM: x86: skip writeback on injection of nested exception")
> > 
> > for the purpose of skipping writeback.  At the time, the above blob in the
> > decode flow didn't exist.
> > 
> > 
> > Decode exception handling was added by commit
> > 
> >   6ea6e84309ca ("KVM: x86: inject exceptions produced by x86_decode_insn")
> > 
> > but it was dead code even then.  The patch discussion[1] even point out that
> > it was dead code, i.e. the change probably should have been reverted.
> > 
> > 
> > Peng Hao and Yi Wang later ran into what appears to be the same bug you're
> > hitting[2][3], and even had patches temporarily queued[4][5], but the
> > patches never made it to mainline as they broke kvm-unit-tests.  Fun side
> > note, Radim even pointed out[4] the bug fixed by patch 1/3.
> > 
> > So, the patches look correct, but there's the open question of why the
> > hypercall test was failing for Paolo.  
> 
> Sorry, I'm little confused. Could you please, point me which test or tests 
> were broken? I've just run kvm-unit-test and I see same results with and 
> without my changes.
> 
> > I've tried to reproduce the #DF to
> > no avail.

Aha!  The #DF occurs if patch 2/3, but not patch 3/3, is applied, and the
VMware backdoor is enabled.  The backdoor is off by default, which is why
only Paolo was seeing the #DF.

To handle the VMware backdoor, KVM intercepts #GP faults, which includes
the non-canonical #GP from the hypercall unit test.  With only patch 2/3
applied, x86_emulate_instruction() injects a #GP for the non-canonical RIP
but returns EMULATE_FAIL instead of EMULATE_DONE.   EMULATE_FAIL causes
handle_exception_nmi() (or gp_interception() for SVM) to re-inject the
original #GP because it thinks emulation failed due to a non-VMware opcode.

Applying patch 3/3 resolves the issue as x86_emulate_instruction() returns
EMULATE_DONE after injecting the #GP.


TL;DR:

Swap the order of patches and everything should be hunky dory.  Please
rebase to the latest kvm/queue, which has an equivalent to patch 1/3.