linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: nSVM/nVMX: Fix handling triple fault on RSM instruction

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 23:03:53 +0100
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: Michal Wilczynski <michal.wilczynski@...el.com>, 
	Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@...ux.intel.com>, mlevitsk@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, 
	mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, x86@...nel.org, 
	hpa@...or.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	dedekind1@...il.com, yuan.yao@...el.com, Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: nSVM/nVMX: Fix handling triple fault on RSM instruction

On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 4:05 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com> wrote:
> > If they are needed, it's fine. In my opinion a new callback is easier
> > to handle and understand than new state.
>
> Yeah, we ripped out post_leave_smm() because its sole usage at the time was buggy,
> and having a callback without a purpose would just be dead code.

[...]

>  : But due to nested_run_pending being (unnecessarily) buried in vendor structs, it
>  : might actually be easier to do a cleaner fix.  E.g. add yet another flag to track
>  : that a hardware VM-Enter needs to be completed in order to complete instruction
>  : emulation.
>
> I didn't mean add a flag to the emulator to muck with nested_run_pending, I meant
> add a flag to kvm_vcpu_arch to be a superset of nested_run_pending.  E.g. as a
> first step, something like the below.  And then as follow up, see if it's doable
> to propagate nested_run_pending => insn_emulation_needs_vmenter so that the
> nested_run_pending checks in {svm,vmx}_{interrupt,nmi,smi}_allowed() can be
> dropped.

That seems a lot more complicated... What do you think of the patches
I posted (the one that works and the wish-it-could-be-like-that one
that folds triple faults into check_nested_events).

Paolo