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Date:   Wed, 25 May 2022 10:40:53 +0800
From:   "Wang, Lei" <lei4.wang@...el.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     pbonzini@...hat.com, vkuznets@...hat.com, wanpengli@...cent.com,
        jmattson@...gle.com, joro@...tes.org, chenyi.qiang@...el.com,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Read BNDCFGS if not from_vmentry

On 5/20/2022 1:59 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, Lei Wang wrote:
>> In the migration case, if nested state is set after MSR state, the value
>> needs to come from the current MSR value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lei Wang <lei4.wang@...el.com>
>> Reported-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 3 ++-
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
>> index f18744f7ff82..58a1fa7defc9 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
>> @@ -3381,7 +3381,8 @@ enum nvmx_vmentry_status nested_vmx_enter_non_root_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>   	if (!(vmcs12->vm_entry_controls & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_DEBUG_CONTROLS))
>>   		vmx->nested.vmcs01_debugctl = vmcs_read64(GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL);
>>   	if (kvm_mpx_supported() &&
>> -		!(vmcs12->vm_entry_controls & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_BNDCFGS))
>> +	    (!from_vmentry ||
> Gah, my bad, this isn't correct either.  The minor issue is that it should check
> vmx->nested.nested_run_pending, not just from_vmentry.  If nested state is restored
> and a VM-Entry is pending, then the MSRs that were saved+restore were L1's MSRs,
> not L2's MSRs.
>
> That won't cause problems because the consumption correctly checks nested_run_pending,
> it's just confusing and an unnecessary VMREAD.
>
> But that's a moot point because vmcs01 will not hold the correct value in the SMM
> case.  Luckily, BNDCFGS is easy to handle because it's unconditionally saved on
> VM-Exit, which means that vmcs12 is guaranteed to hold the correct value for both
> SMM and state restore (without pending entry) because the pseudo-VM-Exit for both
> will always save vmcs02's value into vmcs12.
>
> GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL is a much bigger pain because it's conditionally saved on
> exit.   I think the least awful approach would be to save L2's value into
> vmcs01_debugctl prior to the forced exit in vmx_enter_smm(), but that will require
> more changes to the state restore flow.  Grr.
>
> I'll send patches for both BNDCFGS and IA32_DEBUGCTL, and will take a careful look
> at the PKS stuff too.  I'm guessing it should follow the BNDCFGS logic.
>
> Sorry for the runaround.

Thanks for your detailed reviewing, no need for sorry.

Looking forward to your fix patches.