Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: set rflags to specify success in handle_invvpid() default case

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Jan 23 2020 - 04:23:50 EST


On 23/01/20 09:55, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
>> index 7608924ee8c1..985d3307ec56 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
>> @@ -5165,7 +5165,7 @@ static int handle_invvpid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>> break;
>> default:
>> WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>> - return kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
>> + break;
>> }
>>
>> return nested_vmx_succeed(vcpu);
> Your patch seems to do the right thing, however, I started wondering if
> WARN_ON_ONCE() is the right thing to do. SDM says that "If an
> unsupported INVVPID type is specified, the instruction fails." and this
> is similar to INVEPT and I decided to check what handle_invept()
> does. Well, it does BUG_ON().
>
> Are we doing the right thing in any of these cases?

Yes, both INVEPT and INVVPID catch this earlier.

For INVEPT:

types = (vmx->nested.msrs.ept_caps >> VMX_EPT_EXTENT_SHIFT) & 6;

if (type >= 32 || !(types & (1 << type)))
return nested_vmx_failValid(vcpu,
VMXERR_INVALID_OPERAND_TO_INVEPT_INVVPID);



For INVVPID:

types = (vmx->nested.msrs.vpid_caps &
VMX_VPID_EXTENT_SUPPORTED_MASK) >> 8;

if (type >= 32 || !(types & (1 << type)))
return nested_vmx_failValid(vcpu,
VMXERR_INVALID_OPERAND_TO_INVEPT_INVVPID);

So I'm leaning towards not applying Miaohe's patch. Happy Mouse Year
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Thanks,