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Message-ID: <20220916024946.GA2451@k08j02272.eu95sqa>
Date:   Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:49:46 +0800
From:   "Hou Wenlong" <houwenlong.hwl@...group.com>
To:     Liam Ni <zhiguangni01@...il.com>
Cc:     David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Lan Tianyu <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix wrong gfn range of tlb flushing
 in validate_direct_spte()

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 07:47:35PM +0800, Liam Ni wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sept 2022 at 20:13, Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@...group.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 01:43:54AM +0800, David Matlack wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 05:29:18PM +0800, Hou Wenlong wrote:
> > > > The spte pointing to the children SP is dropped, so the
> > > > whole gfn range covered by the children SP should be flushed.
> > > > Although, Hyper-V may treat a 1-page flush the same if the
> > > > address points to a huge page, it still would be better
> > > > to use the correct size of huge page. Also introduce
> > > > a helper function to do range-based flushing when a direct
> > > > SP is dropped, which would help prevent future buggy use
> > > > of kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address() in such case.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: c3134ce240eed ("KVM: Replace old tlb flush function with new one to flush a specified range.")
> > > > Suggested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@...group.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 10 +++++++++-
> > > >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > > > index e418ef3ecfcb..a3578abd8bbc 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > > > @@ -260,6 +260,14 @@ void kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address(struct kvm *kvm,
> > > >     kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_range(kvm, &range);
> > > >  }
> > > >
> > > > +/* Flush all memory mapped by the given direct SP. */
> > > > +static void kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_direct_sp(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
> > > > +{
> > > > +   WARN_ON_ONCE(!sp->role.direct);
> > > > +   kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address(kvm, sp->gfn,
> > > > +                                      KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(sp->role.level + 1));
> 
> Do we need "+1" here?    sp->role.level=1 means 4k page.
> I think here should be   “KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(sp->role.level)”
>
This helper function is used to flush all memory mapped by the given
SP, not one spte in the SP. If sp->role.level=1, the size of memory
mapped by the SP is 2M, but KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(sp->role.level) is
1.

> > >
> > > nit: I think it would make sense to introduce
> > > kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_gfn() in this patch since you are going to
> > > eventually use it here anyway.
> > >
> > OK, I'll do it in the next version. Thanks!
> >
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > >  static void mark_mmio_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep, u64 gfn,
> > > >                        unsigned int access)
> > > >  {
> > > > @@ -2341,7 +2349,7 @@ static void validate_direct_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
> > > >                     return;
> > > >
> > > >             drop_parent_pte(child, sptep);
> > > > -           kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address(vcpu->kvm, child->gfn, 1);
> > > > +           kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_direct_sp(vcpu->kvm, child);
> > > >     }
> > > >  }
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > 2.31.1
> > > >