RE: [PATCH] x86/tdx: Handle load_unaligned_zeropad() page-cross to a shared page

[David Laight]

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
> Sent: 17 May 2022 16:30
> 
> load_unaligned_zeropad() can lead to unwanted loads across page boundaries.
> The unwanted loads are typically harmless. But, they might be made to
> totally unrelated or even unmapped memory. load_unaligned_zeropad()
> relies on exception fixup (#PF, #GP and now #VE) to recover from these
> unwanted loads.
> 
> In TDX guest the second page can be shared page and VMM may configure it
> to trigger #VE.
> 
> Kernel assumes that #VE on a shared page is MMIO access and tries to
> decode instruction to handle it. In case of load_unaligned_zeropad() it
> may result in confusion as it is not MMIO access.
> 
> Check fixup table before trying to handle MMIO.

Is it best to avoid that all happening by avoiding mapping
'normal memory' below anything that isn't normal memory.

Even on a normal system it is potentially possibly that the
second page might be MMIO and reference a target that doesn't
want to see non-word sized reads.
(Or the first location might be a fifo and the read consumes
some data.)

In that case the cpu won't fault the access, but the hardware
access might have rather unexpected side effects.

Now the way MMIO pages are allocated probably makes that
impossible - but load_unaligned_zeropad() relies on
it not happening or not breaking anything.

	David

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