Re: [PATCH v2 12/18] KVM: x86/mmu: clear MMIO cache when unloading the MMU

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Thu, 2022-02-17 at 16:03 -0500, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> For cleanliness, do not leave a stale GVA in the cache after all the roots are
> cleared.  In practice, kvm_mmu_load will go through kvm_mmu_sync_roots if
> paging is on, and will not use vcpu_match_mmio_gva at all if paging is off.
> However, leaving data in the cache might cause bugs in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index b01160716c6a..4e8e3e9530ca 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -5111,6 +5111,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_unload(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>  	__kvm_mmu_unload(vcpu->kvm, &vcpu->arch.root_mmu);
>  	__kvm_mmu_unload(vcpu->kvm, &vcpu->arch.guest_mmu);
> +	vcpu_clear_mmio_info(vcpu, MMIO_GVA_ANY);
>  }
>  
>  static bool need_remote_flush(u64 old, u64 new)


One thing that bothers me for a while with all of this is that
vcpu->arch.{mmio_gva|mmio_access|mmio_gfn|mmio_gen} are often called mmio cache,
while we also install reserved bit SPTEs and also call this a mmio cache.

The above is basically a cache of a cache sort of.

Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky