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KVM: MMU: fix ept=0/pte.u=1/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0 combo

2016-03-16T15:42:58Z

commit 844a5fe219cf472060315971e15cbf97674a3324 upstream. Yes, all of these are needed. :) This is admittedly a bit odd, but kvm-unit-tests access.flat tests this if you run it with "-cpu host" and of course ept=0. KVM runs the guest with CR0.WP=1, so it must handle supervisor writes specially when pte.u=1/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0. Such writes cause a fault when U=1 and W=0 in the SPTE, but they must succeed because CR0.WP=0. When KVM gets the fault, it sets U=0 and W=1 in the shadow PTE and restarts execution. This will still cause a user write to fault, while supervisor writes will succeed. User reads will fault spuriously now, and KVM will then flip U and W again in the SPTE (U=1, W=0). User reads will be enabled and supervisor writes disabled, going back to the originary situation where supervisor writes fault spuriously. When SMEP is in effect, however, U=0 will enable kernel execution of this page. To avoid this, KVM also sets NX=1 in the shadow PTE together with U=0. If the guest has not enabled NX, the result is a continuous stream of page faults due to the NX bit being reserved. The fix is to force EFER.NX=1 even if the CPU is taking care of the EFER switch. (All machines with SMEP have the CPU_LOAD_IA32_EFER vm-entry control, so they do not use user-return notifiers for EFER---if they did, EFER.NX would be forced to the same value as the host). There is another bug in the reserved bit check, which I've split to a separate patch for easier application to stable kernels. Cc: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong Fixes: f6577a5fa15d82217ca73c74cd2dcbc0f6c781dd Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2015-11-06T00:26:26Z

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "First batch of KVM changes for 4.4. s390: A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time handling. PPC: Mostly bug fixes. ARM: No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including: - a number of fixes for the arch-timer - introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers - a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite for IRQ forwarding) - some tracepoint improvements - a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers - some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state x86: Quite a few changes: - support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject interrupts directly into vCPUs). This introduces a new component (in virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together. The same infrastructure will be used for ARM interrupt forwarding as well. - more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller will have to wait for 4.5. These will let KVM expose Hyper-V devices. - nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for vCPUs) which makes it quite a bit faster - for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for clflushopt, clwb, pcommit - support for "split irqchip", i.e. LAPIC in kernel + IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in userspace, which reduces the attack surface of the hypervisor - obligatory smattering of SMM fixes - on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten to not require help from the hypervisor" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (123 commits) KVM: VMX: Fix commit which broke PML KVM: x86: obey KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in kvm_set_cr0() KVM: x86: allow RSM from 64-bit mode KVM: VMX: fix SMEP and SMAP without EPT KVM: x86: move kvm_set_irq_inatomic to legacy device assignment KVM: device assignment: remove pointless #ifdefs KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset drivers/hv: share Hyper-V SynIC constants with userspace KVM: x86: handle SMBASE as physical address in RSM KVM: x86: add read_phys to x86_emulate_ops KVM: x86: removing unused variable KVM: don't pointlessly leave KVM_COMPAT=y in non-KVM configs KVM: arm/arm64: Merge vgic_set_lr() and vgic_sync_lr_elrsr() KVM: arm/arm64: Clean up vgic_retire_lr() and surroundings KVM: arm/arm64: Optimize away redundant LR tracking KVM: s390: use simple switch statement as multiplexer KVM: s390: drop useless newline in debugging data KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries KVM: arm: Do not indent the arguments of DECLARE_BITMAP ...

Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

2015-11-04T15:24:17Z

KVM/ARM Changes for v4.4-rc1 Includes a number of fixes for the arch-timer, introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers, a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite for IRQ forwarding), some tracepoint improvements, a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers, some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state, and finally a stylistic change that gets rid of some ctags warnings. Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h

KVM: arm/arm64: Fix vGIC documentation

2015-10-22T21:01:47Z

Correct some old mistakes in the API documentation: 1. VCPU is identified by index (using kvm_get_vcpu() function), but "cpu id" can be mistaken for affinity ID. 2. Some error codes are wrong. [ Slightly tweaked some grammer and did some s/CPU index/vcpu_index/ in the descriptions. -Christoffer ] Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall

arm/arm64: KVM: Add forwarded physical interrupts documentation

2015-10-22T21:01:43Z

Forwarded physical interrupts on arm/arm64 is a tricky concept and the way we deal with them is not apparently easy to understand by reading various specs. Therefore, add a proper documentation file explaining the flow and rationale of the behavior of the vgic. Some of this text was contributed by Marc Zyngier and edited by me. Omissions and errors are all mine. Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall

Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm

2015-10-11T21:35:23Z

This patch fix spelling typos in Documentation/virtual/kvm. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

KVM: Update Posted-Interrupts Descriptor when vCPU is blocked

2015-10-01T13:06:53Z

This patch updates the Posted-Interrupts Descriptor when vCPU is blocked. pre-block: - Add the vCPU to the blocked per-CPU list - Set 'NV' to POSTED_INTR_WAKEUP_VECTOR post-block: - Remove the vCPU from the per-CPU list Signed-off-by: Feng Wu [Concentrate invocation of pre/post-block hooks to vcpu_block. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm: add capability for any-length ioeventfds

2015-10-01T13:06:31Z

Cc: Gleb Natapov Cc: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: x86: Add support for local interrupt requests from userspace

2015-10-01T13:06:29Z

In order to enable userspace PIC support, the userspace PIC needs to be able to inject local interrupts even when the APICs are in the kernel. KVM_INTERRUPT now supports sending local interrupts to an APIC when APICs are in the kernel. The ready_for_interrupt_request flag is now only set when the CPU/APIC will immediately accept and inject an interrupt (i.e. APIC has not masked the PIC). When the PIC wishes to initiate an INTA cycle with, say, CPU0, it kicks CPU0 out of the guest, and renedezvous with CPU0 once it arrives in userspace. When the CPU/APIC unmasks the PIC, a KVM_EXIT_IRQ_WINDOW_OPEN is triggered, so that userspace has a chance to inject a PIC interrupt if it had been pending. Overall, this design can lead to a small number of spurious userspace renedezvous. In particular, whenever the PIC transistions from low to high while it is masked and whenever the PIC becomes unmasked while it is low. Note: this does not buffer more than one local interrupt in the kernel, so the VMM needs to enter the guest in order to complete interrupt injection before injecting an additional interrupt. Compiles for x86. Can pass the KVM Unit Tests. Signed-off-by: Steve Rutherford Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: x86: Add EOI exit bitmap inference

2015-10-01T13:06:28Z

In order to support a userspace IOAPIC interacting with an in kernel APIC, the EOI exit bitmaps need to be configurable. If the IOAPIC is in userspace (i.e. the irqchip has been split), the EOI exit bitmaps will be set whenever the GSI Routes are configured. In particular, for the low MSI routes are reservable for userspace IOAPICs. For these MSI routes, the EOI Exit bit corresponding to the destination vector of the route will be set for the destination VCPU. The intention is for the userspace IOAPICs to use the reservable MSI routes to inject interrupts into the guest. This is a slight abuse of the notion of an MSI Route, given that MSIs classically bypass the IOAPIC. It might be worthwhile to add an additional route type to improve clarity. Compile tested for Intel x86. Signed-off-by: Steve Rutherford Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini