linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: vmx/pmu: Add MSR_ARCH_LBR

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Message-ID: <d194f89a-cd56-6f32-4797-ae11956bf5ba@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 10:52:51 +0800
From:   Like Xu <like.xu@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.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
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: vmx/pmu: Add MSR_ARCH_LBR_DEPTH emulation for
 Arch LBR

On 2021/3/2 6:34, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021, Like Xu wrote:
>> @@ -348,10 +352,26 @@ static bool intel_pmu_handle_lbr_msrs_access(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>   	return true;
>>   }
>>   
>> +/*
>> + * Check if the requested depth values is supported
>> + * based on the bits [0:7] of the guest cpuid.1c.eax.
>> + */
>> +static bool arch_lbr_depth_is_valid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 depth)
>> +{
>> +	struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *best;
>> +
>> +	best = kvm_find_cpuid_entry(vcpu, 0x1c, 0);
>> +	if (depth && best)
> 
>> +		return (best->eax & 0xff) & (1ULL << (depth / 8 - 1));
> 
> I believe this will genereate undefined behavior if depth > 64.  Or if depth < 8.
> And I believe this check also needs to enforce that depth is a multiple of 8.
> 
>     For each bit n set in this field, the IA32_LBR_DEPTH.DEPTH value 8*(n+1) is
>     supported.
> 
> Thus it's impossible for 0-7, 9-15, etc... to be legal depths.

Thank you! How about:

	best = kvm_find_cpuid_entry(vcpu, 0x1c, 0);
	if (best && depth && !(depth % 8))
		return (best->eax & 0xff) & (1ULL << (depth / 8 - 1));

	return false;

> 
> 
>> +
>> +	return false;
>> +}
>> +
>