linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/7] KVM: x86/pmu: Fix some corner cases including Intel PEBS

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 13 Jul 2022 20:24:59 +0800
From:   Like Xu <like.xu.linux@...il.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, Like Xu <likexu@...cent.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/7] KVM: x86/pmu: Fix some corner cases including Intel PEBS

Good well-designed tests can help us find more bugs, especially when
the test steps differ from the Linux kernel behaviour in terms of the
timing of access to virtualized hw resources.

A new guest PEBS kvm-unit-test constructs a number of typical and
corner use cases to demonstrate how fragile the earlier PEBS
enabling patch set is. I prefer to reveal these flaws and fix them
myself before we receive complaints from projects that rely on it.

In this patch series, there is one small optimization (006), one hardware
surprise (002), and most of these fixes have stepped on my little toes.

Please feel free to add more tests or share comments.

Like Xu (7):
  perf/x86/core: Update x86_pmu.pebs_capable for ICELAKE_{X,D}
  perf/x86/core: Completely disable guest PEBS via guest's global_ctrl
  KVM: x86/pmu: Avoid setting BIT_ULL(-1) to pmu->host_cross_mapped_mask
  KVM: x86/pmu: Not to generate PEBS records for emulated instructions
  KVM: x86/pmu: Avoid using PEBS perf_events for normal counters
  KVM: x86/pmu: Defer reprogram_counter() to kvm_pmu_handle_event()
  KVM: x86/pmu: Defer counter emulated overflow via pmc->stale_counter

 arch/x86/events/intel/core.c    |  4 ++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  5 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c              | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c          |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c    | 29 +++++++++++-----------
 5 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

-- 
2.37.0