Re: [PATCH] svm: Fix improper check when deactivate AVIC

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Jan 30 2019 - 11:22:56 EST


On 29/01/19 09:09, Suthikulpanit, Suravee wrote:
> The function svm_refresh_apicv_exec_ctrl() always returning prematurely
> as kvm_vcpu_apicv_active() always return false when calling from
> the function arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:kvm_vcpu_deactivate_apicv().
> This is because the apicv_active is set to false just before calling
> refresh_apicv_exec_ctrl().
>
> Also, we need to mark VMCB_AVIC bit as dirty instead of VMCB_INTR.
>
> So, fix svm_refresh_apicv_exec_ctrl() to properly deactivate AVIC.
>
> Fixes: 67034bb9dd5e ('KVM: SVM: Add irqchip_split() checks before enabling AVIC')

Having the lapic_in_kernel check in your code is a bit ugly - the caller
should check it. And actually, even though it doesn't check it right
now, svm_refresh_apicv_exec_ctrl is only reachable if lapic_in_kernel
returns true; see the KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC case of
kvm_vcpu_ioctl_enable_cap.

What about this simpler patch:

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index 01b66bbcdd7a..74ceda470eae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -5122,11 +5122,11 @@ static void svm_refresh_apicv_exec_ctrl(
struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
struct vmcb *vmcb = svm->vmcb;

- if (!kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(&svm->vcpu))
- return;
-
- vmcb->control.int_ctl &= ~AVIC_ENABLE_MASK;
- mark_dirty(vmcb, VMCB_INTR);
+ if (kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(vcpu))
+ vmcb->control.int_ctl |= AVIC_ENABLE_MASK;
+ else
+ vmcb->control.int_ctl &= ~AVIC_ENABLE_MASK;
+ mark_dirty(vmcb, VMCB_AVIC);
}

static void svm_load_eoi_exitmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64
*eoi_exit_bitmap)

?

Thanks,

Paolo