linux-kernel - [PATCH 9/9] KVM: SVM: Don't kill SEV guest if SMAP erratum triggers in usermode

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jan 2022 01:07:19 +0000
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,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] KVM: SVM: Don't kill SEV guest if SMAP erratum triggers
 in usermode

Inject a #GP instead of synthesizing triple fault to try to avoid killing
the guest if emulation of an SEV guest fails due to encountering the SMAP
erratum.  The injected #GP may still be fatal to the guest, e.g. if the
userspace process is providing critical functionality, but KVM should
make every attempt to keep the guest alive.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index a4b02a6217fd..88f5bbb0e6a1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -4357,7 +4357,21 @@ static bool svm_can_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int emul_type,
 	is_user = svm_get_cpl(vcpu) == 3;
 	if (smap && (!smep || is_user)) {
 		pr_err_ratelimited("KVM: SEV Guest triggered AMD Erratum 1096\n");
-		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, vcpu);
+
+		/*
+		 * If the fault occurred in userspace, arbitrarily inject #GP
+		 * to avoid killing the guest and to hopefully avoid confusing
+		 * the guest kernel too much, e.g. injecting #PF would not be
+		 * coherent with respect to the guest's page tables.  Request
+		 * triple fault if the fault occurred in the kernel as there's
+		 * no fault that KVM can inject without confusing the guest.
+		 * In practice, the triple fault is moot as no sane SEV kernel
+		 * will execute from user memory while also running with SMAP=1.
+		 */
+		if (is_user)
+			kvm_inject_gp(vcpu, 0);
+		else
+			kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, vcpu);
 	}
 
 resume_guest:
-- 
2.34.1.703.g22d0c6ccf7-goog