linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] KVM: VMX: Check Intel PT related CPUID leaves

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Date:   Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:01:09 +0800
From:   Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.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 6/7] KVM: VMX: Check Intel PT related CPUID leaves

On 9/10/2021 9:59 AM, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> On 9/10/2021 5:41 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2021, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
>>> CPUID 0xD leaves reports the capabilities of Intel PT, e.g. it decides
>>> which bits are valid to be set in MSR_IA32_RTIT_CTL, and reports the
>>> number of PT ADDR ranges.
>>>
>>> KVM needs to check that guest CPUID values set by userspace doesn't
>>> enable any bit which is not supported by bare metal. Otherwise,
>>> 1. it will trigger vm-entry failure if hardware unsupported bit is
>>>     exposed to guest and set by guest.
>>> 2. it triggers #GP when context switch PT MSRs if exposing more
>>>     RTIT_ADDR* MSRs than hardware capacity.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>
..
> 
>>> +     * pt_desc.ctl_bitmask in later update_intel_pt_cfg().
>>> +     *
>>> +     * pt_desc.ctl_bitmask decides the legal value for guest
>>> +     * MSR_IA32_RTIT_CTL. KVM cannot support PT capabilities beyond 
>>> native,
>>> +     * otherwise it will trigger vm-entry failure if guest sets native
>>> +     * unsupported bits in MSR_IA32_RTIT_CTL.
>>> +     */
>>> +    best = cpuid_entry2_find(entries, nent, 0xD, 0);
>>> +    if (best) {
>>> +        cpuid_count(0xD, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
>>> +        if (best->ebx & ~ebx || best->ecx & ~ecx)
>>> +            return -EINVAL;
>>> +    }
>>> +    best = cpuid_entry2_find(entries, nent, 0xD, 1);
>>> +    if (best) {
>>> +        cpuid_count(0xD, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
>>> +        if (((best->eax & 0x7) > (eax & 0x7)) ||
>>
>> Ugh, looking at the rest of the code, even this isn't sufficient because
>> pt_desc.guest.addr_{a,b} are hardcoded at 4 entries, i.e. running KVM 
>> on hardware
>> with >4 entries will lead to buffer overflows.
> 
> it's hardcoded to 4 because there is a note of "no processors support 
> more than 4 address ranges" in SDM vol.3 Chapter 31.3.1, table 31-11
> 
>> One option would be to bump that to the theoretical max of 15, which 
>> doesn't seem
>> too horrible, especially if pt_desc as a whole is allocated on-demand, 
>> which it
>> probably should be since it isn't exactly tiny (nor ubiquitous)
>>
>> A different option would be to let userspace define whatever it wants 
>> for guest
>> CPUID, and instead cap nr_addr_ranges at min(host.cpuid, guest.cpuid, 
>> RTIT_ADDR_RANGE).
>>
>> Letting userspace generate a bad MSR_IA32_RTIT_CTL is not problematic, 
>> there are
>> plenty of ways userspace can deliberately trigger VM-Entry failure due 
>> to invalid
>> guest state (even if this is a VM-Fail condition, it's not a danger to 
>> KVM).
> 
> I'm fine to only safe guard the nr_addr_range if VM-Entry failure 
> doesn't matter.

Hi Sean.

It seems I misread your comment. All above you were talking about the 
check on nr_addr_range. Did you want to say the check is not necessary 
if it's to avoid VM-entry failure?

The problem is 1) the check on nr_addr_range is to avoid MSR read #GP, 
thought kernel will fix the #GP. It still prints the warning message.

2) Other check of this Patch on guest CPUID 0x14 is to avoid VM-entry 
failure.

So I want to ask that do you think both 1) and 2) are unnecessary, or 
only 2) ?