linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 6/9] KVM: x86: lapic: don't allow to change APIC ID unconditionally

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Date:   Tue, 26 Apr 2022 22:00:18 +0800
From:   Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>
To:     Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Zeng Guang <guang.zeng@...el.com>,
        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,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        Jethro Beekman <jethro@...tanix.com>,
        Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Robert Hu <robert.hu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/9] KVM: x86: lapic: don't allow to change APIC ID
 unconditionally

>Palo, Sean, Any update?
>
>After thinking more about this, I actualy think I will do something
>different, something that actually was proposed here, and I was against it:
>
>
>1. I will add new inhibit APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_RO_SETTINGS, which will be set
>first time any vCPU touches apic id and/or apic base because why not...
>
>That will take care of non nested case cleanly, and will take care of IPIv
>for now (as long as it does't support nesting).

Yes. This works well with intel IPIv.

>
>2. For my nested AVIC, I will do 2 things:
>
>   a. My code never reads L1 apic ids, and always uses vcpu_id, thus
>      in theory, if I just ignore the problem, and the guest changes apic ids,
>      the nested AVIC will just keep on using initial apic ids, thus there is  no danger
>      of CVE like issue if the guest tries to change theses ids in the 'right' time.
>
>   b. on each nested vm entry I'll just check that apic id is not changed from the default,
>      if AVIC is enabled for the nested guest.
>
>      if so the nested entry will fail (best with kvm_vm_bugged) to get attention of
>      the user, but I can just fail it with standard vm exit reason of 0xFFFFFFFF.

For sake of simplicity, I prefer to make APIC ID read-only for VMs that
supports (nested) AVIC or IPIv (KVM can check guest CPUID/MSR to know
this). When guest attempts to change read-only APIC ID, KVM can raise an
internal error, saying KVM cannot emulate this action. To get rid of such
an error, users should launch the VM with nested AVIC/IPIv disabled or
upgrade VM kernel to not change APIC ID.