Re: [RFC PATCH v6 036/104] KVM: x86/mmu: Explicitly check for MMIO spte in fast page fault

From: David Matlack
Date: Mon Aug 01 2022 - 18:27:25 EST


On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 11:14:30AM -0700, isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Explicitly check for an MMIO spte in the fast page fault flow. TDX will
> use a not-present entry for MMIO sptes, which can be mistaken for an
> access-tracked spte since both have SPTE_SPECIAL_MASK set.
>
> MMIO sptes are handled in handle_mmio_page_fault for non-TDX VMs, so this
> patch does not affect them. TDX will handle MMIO emulation through a
> hypercall instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index d1c37295bb6e..4a12d862bbb6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -3184,7 +3184,7 @@ static int fast_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault)
> else
> sptep = fast_pf_get_last_sptep(vcpu, fault->addr, &spte);
>
> - if (!is_shadow_present_pte(spte))
> + if (!is_shadow_present_pte(spte) || is_mmio_spte(spte))

I wonder if this patch is really necessary. is_shadow_present_pte()
checks if SPTE_MMU_PRESENT_MASK is set (which is bit 11, not
shadow_present_mask). Do TDX VMs set bit 11 in MMIO SPTEs?

> break;
>
> sp = sptep_to_sp(sptep);
> --
> 2.25.1
>