linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 039/128] KVM: nVMX: Consult only the "basic" exit reason when routing nested exit

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Message-Id: <20200619141622.282898678@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:32:13 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 039/128] KVM: nVMX: Consult only the "basic" exit reason when routing nested exit

From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>

commit 2ebac8bb3c2d35f5135466490fc8eeaf3f3e2d37 upstream.

Consult only the basic exit reason, i.e. bits 15:0 of vmcs.EXIT_REASON,
when determining whether a nested VM-Exit should be reflected into L1 or
handled by KVM in L0.

For better or worse, the switch statement in nested_vmx_exit_reflected()
currently defaults to "true", i.e. reflects any nested VM-Exit without
dedicated logic.  Because the case statements only contain the basic
exit reason, any VM-Exit with modifier bits set will be reflected to L1,
even if KVM intended to handle it in L0.

Practically speaking, this only affects EXIT_REASON_MCE_DURING_VMENTRY,
i.e. a #MC that occurs on nested VM-Enter would be incorrectly routed to
L1, as "failed VM-Entry" is the only modifier that KVM can currently
encounter.  The SMM modifiers will never be generated as KVM doesn't
support/employ a SMI Transfer Monitor.  Ditto for "exit from enclave",
as KVM doesn't yet support virtualizing SGX, i.e. it's impossible to
enter an enclave in a KVM guest (L1 or L2).

Fixes: 644d711aa0e1 ("KVM: nVMX: Deciding if L0 or L1 should handle an L2 exit")
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
Cc: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Message-Id: <20200227174430.26371-1-sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -8207,7 +8207,7 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_handled(stru
 		return true;
 	}

-	switch (exit_reason) {
+	switch ((u16)exit_reason) {
 	case EXIT_REASON_EXCEPTION_NMI:
 		if (is_nmi(intr_info))
 			return false;