linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 091/218] KVM: x86: Fix emulation in writing cr8

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Date:   Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:12:37 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...el.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 091/218] KVM: x86: Fix emulation in writing cr8

From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...el.com>

[ Upstream commit f66af9f222f08d5b11ea41c1bd6c07a0f12daa07 ]

In emulation of writing to cr8, one of the lowest four bits in TPR[3:0]
is kept.

According to Intel SDM 10.8.6.1(baremetal scenario):
"APIC.TPR[bits 7:4] = CR8[bits 3:0], APIC.TPR[bits 3:0] = 0";

and SDM 28.3(use TPR shadow):
"MOV to CR8. The instruction stores bits 3:0 of its source operand into
bits 7:4 of VTPR; the remainder of VTPR (bits 3:0 and bits 31:8) are
cleared.";

and AMD's APM 16.6.4:
"Task Priority Sub-class (TPS)-Bits 3 : 0. The TPS field indicates the
current sub-priority to be used when arbitrating lowest-priority messages.
This field is written with zero when TPR is written using the architectural
CR8 register.";

so in KVM emulated scenario, clear TPR[3:0] to make a consistent behavior
as in other scenarios.

This doesn't impact evaluation and delivery of pending virtual interrupts
because processor does not use the processor-priority sub-class to
determine which interrupts to delivery and which to inhibit.

Sub-class is used by hardware to arbitrate lowest priority interrupts,
but KVM just does a round-robin style delivery.

Fixes: b93463aa59d6 ("KVM: Accelerated apic support")
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Message-Id: <20220210094506.20181-1-zhenzhong.duan@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index bfed29a4c2ce..e5f92488c3cd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -1767,10 +1767,7 @@ void kvm_set_lapic_tscdeadline_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 data)

 void kvm_lapic_set_tpr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr8)
 {
-	struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
-
-	apic_set_tpr(apic, ((cr8 & 0x0f) << 4)
-		     | (kvm_lapic_get_reg(apic, APIC_TASKPRI) & 4));
+	apic_set_tpr(vcpu->arch.apic, (cr8 & 0x0f) << 4);
 }

 u64 kvm_lapic_get_cr8(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
-- 
2.34.1