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Message-ID: <ZJ72omPGZcdjjWbo@google.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 08:37:06 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Yuan Yao <yuan.yao@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@...el.com>,
Reima Ishii <ishiir@...cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>,
shina@....u-tokyo.ac.jp, 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>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yuan.yao@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Prevent vmlaunch with EPTP pointing outside
assigned memory area
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023, Yuan Yao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 01:30:31PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > @@ -3834,8 +3822,8 @@ static int mmu_alloc_shadow_roots(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > if (!(pdptrs[i] & PT_PRESENT_MASK))
> > continue;
> >
> > - if (mmu_check_root(vcpu, pdptrs[i] >> PAGE_SHIFT))
> > - return 1;
> > + if (kvm_vcpu_is_visible_gfn(vcpu, pdptrs[i] >> PAGE_SHIFT))
> > + pdptrs[i] = 0;
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> Should this be "!kvm_vcpu_is_visible_gfn(vcpu, pdptrs[i] >> PAGE_SHIFT)" and
Yep, typo that inverted the check. Thanks for saving me some debug time!
> turn the pae_root[i] to dummy root yet ?
No, zeroing the PDPTR is sufficient. Unlike CR3, which is always "present", PDPTRs
have a present bit and so KVM can communicate to hardware that the entry isn't
valid simply by clearing the PDPTPR.
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