Re: [PATCH v2 18/21] KVM: x86: Treat pending TRIPLE_FAULT requests as pending exceptions

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Wed Jul 06 2022 - 08:16:36 EST


On Tue, 2022-06-14 at 20:47 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Treat pending TRIPLE_FAULTS as pending exceptions. A triple fault is an
> exception for all intents and purposes, it's just not tracked as such
> because there's no vector associated the exception. E.g. if userspace
> were to set vcpu->request_interrupt_window while running L2 and L2 hit a
> triple fault, a triple fault nested VM-Exit should be synthesized to L1
> before exiting to userspace with KVM_EXIT_IRQ_WINDOW_OPEN.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YoVHAIGcFgJit1qp@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 63ee79da50df..8e54a074b7ff 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -12477,9 +12477,6 @@ static inline bool kvm_vcpu_has_events(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> if (kvm_xen_has_pending_events(vcpu))
> return true;
>
> - if (kvm_test_request(KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, vcpu))
> - return true;
> -
> return false;
> }
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> index eee259e387d3..078765287ec6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> @@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ int kvm_check_nested_events(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> static inline bool kvm_is_exception_pending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> return vcpu->arch.exception.pending ||
> - vcpu->arch.exception_vmexit.pending;
> + vcpu->arch.exception_vmexit.pending ||
> + kvm_test_request(KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, vcpu);
> }
>
> static inline void kvm_clear_exception_queue(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)


Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky