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Message-ID: <8cbafd62-528d-fc8e-9945-575c2b659247@amd.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:57:24 -0500
From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 28/35] KVM: X86: Update
kvm_skip_emulated_instruction() for an SEV-ES guest
On 9/14/20 4:51 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 03:15:42PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>> From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
>>
>> The register state for an SEV-ES guest is encrypted so the value of the
>> RIP cannot be updated. For an automatic exit, the RIP will be advanced
>> as necessary. For a non-automatic exit, it is up to the #VC handler in
>> the guest to advance the RIP.
>>
>> Add support to skip any RIP updates in kvm_skip_emulated_instruction()
>> for an SEV-ES guest.
>
> Is there a reason this can't be handled in svm? E.g. can KVM be reworked
> to effectively split the emulation logic so that it's a bug for KVM to end
> up trying to modify RIP?
>
> Also, patch 06 modifies SVM's skip_emulated_instruction() to skip the RIP
> update, but keeps the "svm_set_interrupt_shadow(vcpu, 0)" logic. Seems like
> either that change or this one is wrong.
I added this because of the get_rflags() call. But let me look into
changing get_rflags() in svm.c and see if this patch can go away.
Thanks,
Tom
>
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 +++++-
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> index 23564d02d158..1dbdca607511 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> @@ -6874,13 +6874,17 @@ static int kvm_vcpu_do_singlestep(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>
>> int kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>> {
>> - unsigned long rflags = kvm_x86_ops.get_rflags(vcpu);
>> + unsigned long rflags;
>> int r;
>>
>> r = kvm_x86_ops.skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
>> if (unlikely(!r))
>> return 0;
>>
>> + if (vcpu->arch.vmsa_encrypted)
>> + return 1;
>> +
>> + rflags = kvm_x86_ops.get_rflags(vcpu);
>> /*
>> * rflags is the old, "raw" value of the flags. The new value has
>> * not been saved yet.
>> --
>> 2.28.0
>>
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