linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 00/23] SMM emulation and interrupt shadow fixes

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Date:   Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:49:07 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Yang Zhong <yang.zhong@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Guang Zeng <guang.zeng@...el.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 00/23] SMM emulation and interrupt shadow fixes

On 10/25/22 14:47, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> This patch series is a result of long debug work to find out why
> sometimes guests with win11 secure boot
> were failing during boot.
> 
> During writing a unit test I found another bug, turns out
> that on rsm emulation, if the rsm instruction was done in real
> or 32 bit mode, KVM would truncate the restored RIP to 32 bit.
> 
> I also refactored the way we write SMRAM so it is easier
> now to understand what is going on.
> 
> The main bug in this series which I fixed is that we
> allowed #SMI to happen during the STI interrupt shadow,
> and we did nothing to both reset it on #SMI handler
> entry and restore it on RSM.

I have now sent out the final/new version of the first 8 patches and 
will review these tomorrow.  Thanks for your patience. :)

Paolo