linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 27/27] KVM: x86: Allow force_emulation

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Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2022 23:16:14 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 27/27] KVM: x86: Allow force_emulation_prefix to be written
 without a reload

Allow force_emulation_prefix to be written by privileged userspace
without reloading KVM.  The param does not have any persistent affects
and is trivial to snapshot.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 45f295d35cc9..329998e9ee7a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(enable_vmware_backdoor);
  */
 #define KVM_FEP_CLEAR_RFLAGS_RF	BIT(1)
 static int __read_mostly force_emulation_prefix;
-module_param(force_emulation_prefix, int, 0444);
+module_param(force_emulation_prefix, int, 0644);
 
 int __read_mostly pi_inject_timer = -1;
 module_param(pi_inject_timer, bint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
@@ -7287,6 +7287,7 @@ static int kvm_can_emulate_insn(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int emul_type,
 int handle_ud(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	static const char kvm_emulate_prefix[] = { __KVM_EMULATE_PREFIX };
+	int fep_flags = READ_ONCE(force_emulation_prefix);
 	int emul_type = EMULTYPE_TRAP_UD;
 	char sig[5]; /* ud2; .ascii "kvm" */
 	struct x86_exception e;
@@ -7294,11 +7295,11 @@ int handle_ud(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (unlikely(!kvm_can_emulate_insn(vcpu, emul_type, NULL, 0)))
 		return 1;
 
-	if (force_emulation_prefix &&
+	if (fep_flags &&
 	    kvm_read_guest_virt(vcpu, kvm_get_linear_rip(vcpu),
 				sig, sizeof(sig), &e) == 0 &&
 	    memcmp(sig, kvm_emulate_prefix, sizeof(sig)) == 0) {
-		if (force_emulation_prefix & KVM_FEP_CLEAR_RFLAGS_RF)
+		if (fep_flags & KVM_FEP_CLEAR_RFLAGS_RF)
 			kvm_set_rflags(vcpu, kvm_get_rflags(vcpu) & ~X86_EFLAGS_RF);
 		kvm_rip_write(vcpu, kvm_rip_read(vcpu) + sizeof(sig));
 		emul_type = EMULTYPE_TRAP_UD_FORCED;
-- 
2.37.2.672.g94769d06f0-goog