linux-kernel - [PATCH 22/43] KVM: VMX: Remove direct write to vcpu->arch.cr0 during vCPU RESET/INIT

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Date:   Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:46:24 -0700
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
Subject: [PATCH 22/43] KVM: VMX: Remove direct write to vcpu->arch.cr0 during
 vCPU RESET/INIT

Remove a bogus write to vcpu->arch.cr0 that immediately precedes
vmx_set_cr0() during vCPU RESET/INIT.  For RESET, this is a nop since
the "old" CR0 value is meaningless.  But for INIT, if the vCPU is coming
from paging enabled mode, crushing vcpu->arch.cr0 will cause the various
is_paging() checks in vmx_set_cr0() to get false negatives.

For the exit_lmode() case, the false negative is benign as vmx_set_efer()
is called immediately after vmx_set_cr0().

For EPT without unrestricted guest, the false negative will cause KVM to
unnecessarily run with CR3 load/store exiting.  But again, this is
benign, albeit sub-optimal.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index d0050c140b4d..5795de909609 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -4486,7 +4486,6 @@ static void init_vmcs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 static void vmx_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool init_event)
 {
 	struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
-	u64 cr0;

 	if (!init_event)
 		init_vmcs(vmx);
@@ -4557,9 +4556,7 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool init_event)

 	kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_APIC_PAGE_RELOAD, vcpu);

-	cr0 = X86_CR0_NW | X86_CR0_CD | X86_CR0_ET;
-	vmx->vcpu.arch.cr0 = cr0;
-	vmx_set_cr0(vcpu, cr0); /* enter rmode */
+	vmx_set_cr0(vcpu, X86_CR0_NW | X86_CR0_CD | X86_CR0_ET);
 	vmx_set_cr4(vcpu, 0);
 	vmx_set_efer(vcpu, 0);

-- 
2.31.1.498.g6c1eba8ee3d-goog