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Sean Christopherson 45846661d1 KVM: x86: Drop WARNs that assert a triple fault never "escapes" from L2
Remove WARNs that sanity check that KVM never lets a triple fault for L2
escape and incorrectly end up in L1.  In normal operation, the sanity
check is perfectly valid, but it incorrectly assumes that it's impossible
for userspace to induce KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT without bouncing through
KVM_RUN (which guarantees kvm_check_nested_state() will see and handle
the triple fault).

The WARN can currently be triggered if userspace injects a machine check
while L2 is active and CR4.MCE=0.  And a future fix to allow save/restore
of KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, e.g. so that a synthesized triple fault isn't
lost on migration, will make it trivially easy for userspace to trigger
the WARN.

Clearing KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT when forcibly leaving guest mode is
tempting, but wrong, especially if/when the request is saved/restored,
e.g. if userspace restores events (including a triple fault) and then
restores nested state (which may forcibly leave guest mode).  Ignoring
the fact that KVM doesn't currently provide the necessary APIs, it's
userspace's responsibility to manage pending events during save/restore.

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1399 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c:4522 nested_vmx_vmexit+0x7fe/0xd90 [kvm_intel]
  Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
  CPU: 7 PID: 1399 Comm: state_test Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3+ #808
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:nested_vmx_vmexit+0x7fe/0xd90 [kvm_intel]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   vmx_leave_nested+0x30/0x40 [kvm_intel]
   vmx_set_nested_state+0xca/0x3e0 [kvm_intel]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0xf49/0x13e0 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4b9/0x660 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x83/0xb0
   do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
   </TASK>
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fixes: cb6a32c2b8 ("KVM: x86: Handle triple fault in L2 without killing L1")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220407002315.78092-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2022-04-13 13:37:45 -04:00
arch KVM: x86: Drop WARNs that assert a triple fault never "escapes" from L2 2022-04-13 13:37:45 -04:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.