Re: [PATCH] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix the initialization of the epoch extension (epdx) field

From: Janosch Frank
Date: Thu Nov 24 2022 - 05:24:47 EST


On 11/23/22 10:41, Christian Borntraeger wrote:


Am 23.11.22 um 10:08 schrieb Thomas Huth:
We recently experienced some weird huge time jumps in nested guests when
rebooting them in certain cases. After adding some debug code to the epoch
handling in vsie.c (thanks to David Hildenbrand for the idea!), it was
obvious that the "epdx" field (the multi-epoch extension) did not get set
to 0xff in case the "epoch" field was negative.
Seems like the code misses to copy the value from the epdx field from
the guest to the shadow control block. By doing so, the weird time
jumps are gone in our scenarios.

Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140899
Fixes: 8fa1696ea781 ("KVM: s390: Multiple Epoch Facility support")

We might want to add cc stable, just in case.

I'm pushing this to devel for the CI with the following additions:

Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.19+


Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c b/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
index 94138f8f0c1c..ace2541ababd 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c
@@ -546,8 +546,10 @@ static int shadow_scb(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vsie_page *vsie_page)
if (test_kvm_cpu_feat(vcpu->kvm, KVM_S390_VM_CPU_FEAT_CEI))
scb_s->eca |= scb_o->eca & ECA_CEI;
/* Epoch Extension */
- if (test_kvm_facility(vcpu->kvm, 139))
+ if (test_kvm_facility(vcpu->kvm, 139)) {
scb_s->ecd |= scb_o->ecd & ECD_MEF;
+ scb_s->epdx = scb_o->epdx;
+ }
/* etoken */
if (test_kvm_facility(vcpu->kvm, 156))