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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:22:43 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Relax canonical checks on some arch msrs
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-09-06 at 18:18 -0400, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > Recently we came up upon a failure where likely the guest writes
> > 0xff4547ceb1600000 to MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE and later on, qemu
> > sets this value via KVM_PUT_MSRS, and is rejected by the
> > kernel, likely due to not being canonical in 4 level paging.
> >
> > One of the way to trigger this is to make the guest enter SMM,
> > which causes paging to be disabled, which SMM bios re-enables
> > but not the whole 5 level. MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE on the other
> > hand continues to contain old value.
> >
> > I did some reverse engineering and to my surprise I found out
> > that both Intel and AMD indeed ignore CR4.LA57 when doing
> > canonical checks on this and other msrs and/or other arch
> > registers (like GDT base) which contain linear addresses.
> >
> > V2: addressed a very good feedback from Chao Gao. Thanks!
> >
> > V3: also fix the nested VMX, and also fix the
> > MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP / MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP
> >
> > V4:
> > - added PT and PEBS msrs
> > - corrected emulation of SGDT/SIDT/STR/SLDT instructions
> > - corrected canonical checks for TLB invalidation instructions
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Maxim Levitsky
> >
> > Maxim Levitsky (4):
> > KVM: x86: drop x86.h include from cpuid.h
> > KVM: x86: implement emul_is_noncanonical_address using
> > is_noncanonical_address
> > KVM: x86: model canonical checks more precisely
> > KVM: nVMX: fix canonical check of vmcs12 HOST_RIP
> >
> > arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h | 1 -
> > arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 15 ++++++-----
> > arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h | 5 ++++
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h | 1 +
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
> > arch/x86/kvm/vmx/hyperv.c | 1 +
> > arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++---------
> > arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 2 +-
> > arch/x86/kvm/vmx/sgx.c | 5 ++--
> > arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 4 +--
> > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 13 +++++++---
> > arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > 12 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.26.3
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
> A very gentle ping on this patch series.
Heh, good timing, I literally (like, 2 seconds ago) applied this (still need to
test before you'll see a "thank you" email).
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