[MODERATED] Re: ***UNCHECKED*** [PATCH v7 3/5] NX 3

Hi Paolo,

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:34:28PM +0200, speck for Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  11 ++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h                 |   2 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                      |  13 ++-
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c                              | 135 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h                      |  29 +++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                              |   9 ++
>  6 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

I did some testing on 5.4-rc4 with these patches and they break the
ept=off case on some machines, especially those with the load_ia32_efer
capability:

	kvm [10312]: vcpu0, guest rIP: 0xffffffff810643f8 disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc2 data 0xffff
	walk_shadow_page_get_mmio_spte: detect reserved bits on spte, addr 0xbffbffd8, dump hierarchy:
	------ spte 0x80000003ab000ce7 level 2.

The reason is that during early guest boot KVM direct-maps the guest
memory with a PAE page-table and pages there get the NX bit set. But the
guest has EFER.NX=0, which causes the NX-bit to be reserved.

I fixed it with this diff:

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index e7970a2e8eae..6e9380a0ca41 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ static bool update_transition_efer(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx, int efer_offset)
 	 * On CPUs that support "load IA32_EFER", always switch EFER
 	 * atomically, since it's faster than switching it manually.
 	 */
-	if (cpu_has_load_ia32_efer() ||
+	if ((cpu_has_load_ia32_efer() && (guest_efer & EFER_NX)) ||
 	    (enable_ept && ((vmx->vcpu.arch.efer ^ host_efer) & EFER_NX))) {
 		if (!(guest_efer & EFER_LMA))
 			guest_efer &= ~EFER_LME;


Regards,

	Joerg