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Date:   Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:47:28 -0800
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 03/24] KVM: x86/mmu: Bail from fast_page_fault() if SPTE is
 not shadow-present

Bail from fast_page_fault() if the SPTE is not a shadow-present SPTE.
Functionally, this is not strictly necessary as the !is_access_allowed()
check will eventually reject the fast path, but an early check on
shadow-present skips unnecessary checks and will allow a future patch to
tweak the A/D status auditing to warn if KVM attempts to query A/D bits
without first ensuring the SPTE is a shadow-present SPTE.

Note, is_shadow_present_pte() is quite expensive at this time, i.e. this
might be a net negative in the short term.  A future patch will optimize
is_shadow_present_pte() to a single AND operation and remedy the issue.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index d75524bc8423..93b0285e8b38 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -3061,6 +3061,9 @@ static int fast_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t cr2_or_gpa,
 			if (!is_shadow_present_pte(spte))
 				break;

+		if (!is_shadow_present_pte(spte))
+			break;
+
 		sp = sptep_to_sp(iterator.sptep);
 		if (!is_last_spte(spte, sp->role.level))
 			break;
-- 
2.30.1.766.gb4fecdf3b7-goog