linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 03/28] KVM: SVM: Flush the "current" TLB when activating AVIC

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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:31:09 +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,
        Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@...cle.com>,
        Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>,
        Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>,
        Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 03/28] KVM: SVM: Flush the "current" TLB when activating AVIC

Flush the TLB when activating AVIC as the CPU can insert into the TLB
while AVIC is "locally" disabled.  KVM doesn't treat "APIC hardware
disabled" as VM-wide AVIC inhibition, and so when a vCPU has its APIC
hardware disabled, AVIC is not guaranteed to be inhibited.  As a result,
KVM may create a valid NPT mapping for the APIC base, which the CPU can
cache as a non-AVIC translation.

Note, Intel handles this in vmx_set_virtual_apic_mode().

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
index 6919dee69f18..712330b80891 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ static void avic_activate_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
 		/* Disabling MSR intercept for x2APIC registers */
 		svm_set_x2apic_msr_interception(svm, false);
 	} else {
+		/*
+		 * Flush the TLB, the guest may have inserted a non-APIC
+		 * mapping into the TLB while AVIC was disabled.
+		 */
+		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH_CURRENT, &svm->vcpu);
+
 		/* For xAVIC and hybrid-xAVIC modes */
 		vmcb->control.avic_physical_id |= AVIC_MAX_PHYSICAL_ID;
 		/* Enabling MSR intercept for x2APIC registers */
-- 
2.37.3.968.ga6b4b080e4-goog