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KVM: x86: Don't update PV features caches when enabling enforcement capability

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Revert the chunk of commit 01b4f510b9 ("kvm: x86: ensure pv_cpuid.features
is initialized when enabling cap") that forced a PV features cache refresh
during KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID, as whatever ioctl() ordering
issue it alleged to have fixed never existed upstream, and likely never
existed in any kernel.

At the time of the commit, there was a tangentially related ioctl()
ordering issue, as toggling KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_HLT after KVM_SET_CPUID2
would have resulted in KVM potentially leaving KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT set.
But (a) that bug affected the entire guest CPUID, not just the cache, (b)
commit 01b4f510b9 didn't address that bug, it only refreshed the cache
(with the bad CPUID), and (c) setting KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_HLT after vCPU
creation is completely broken as KVM configures HLT-exiting only during
vCPU creation, which is why KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS is now disallowed if
vCPUs have been created.

Another tangentially related bug was KVM's failure to clear the cache when
handling KVM_SET_CPUID2, but again commit 01b4f510b9 did nothing to fix
that bug.

The most plausible explanation for the what commit 01b4f510b9 was trying
to fix is a bug that existed in Google's internal kernel that was the
source of commit 01b4f510b9.  At the time, Google's internal kernel had
not yet picked up commit 0d3b2ba16b ("KVM: X86: Go on updating other
CPUID leaves when leaf 1 is absent"), i.e. KVM would not initialize the
PV features cache if KVM_SET_CPUID2 was called without a CPUID.0x1 entry.

Of course, no sane real world VMM would omit CPUID.0x1, including the KVM
selftest added by commit ac4a4d6de2 ("selftests: kvm: test enforcement
of paravirtual cpuid features").  And the test didn't actually try to
verify multiple orderings, nor did the selftest enter the guest without
doing KVM_SET_CPUID2, so who knows what motivated the change.

Regardless of why commit 01b4f510b9 ("kvm: x86: ensure pv_cpuid.features
is initialized when enabling cap") was added, refreshing the cache during
KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID isn't necessary.

Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241128013424.4096668-20-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Sean Christopherson 2024-11-27 17:33:46 -08:00
parent 01d1059d63
commit f21958e328
3 changed files with 1 additions and 5 deletions
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arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
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@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *kvm_find_kvm_cpuid_features(struct kvm_vcpu *vcp
vcpu->arch.cpuid_nent, base);
}
void kvm_update_pv_runtime(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
static void kvm_update_pv_runtime(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *best = kvm_find_kvm_cpuid_features(vcpu);

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arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h
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@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ void kvm_set_cpu_caps(void);
void kvm_vcpu_after_set_cpuid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_update_cpuid_runtime(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_update_pv_runtime(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *kvm_find_cpuid_entry_index(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
u32 function, u32 index);
struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *kvm_find_cpuid_entry(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,

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arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
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@ -5814,9 +5814,6 @@ static int kvm_vcpu_ioctl_enable_cap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
case KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID:
vcpu->arch.pv_cpuid.enforce = cap->args[0];
if (vcpu->arch.pv_cpuid.enforce)
kvm_update_pv_runtime(vcpu);
return 0;
default:
return -EINVAL;