Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] KVM: x86/mmu: serialize vCPUs to zap gfn when guest MTRRs are honored

From: Yan Zhao
Date: Wed Jun 28 2023 - 22:17:43 EST


On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 04:00:55PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023, Yan Zhao wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mtrr.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mtrr.c
> > index b35dd0bc9cad..688748e3a4d2 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mtrr.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mtrr.c
> > @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
> > #define IA32_MTRR_DEF_TYPE_FE (1ULL << 10)
> > #define IA32_MTRR_DEF_TYPE_TYPE_MASK (0xff)
> >
> > +static void kvm_mtrr_zap_gfn_range(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > + gfn_t gfn_start, gfn_t gfn_end);
> > static bool is_mtrr_base_msr(unsigned int msr)
> > {
> > /* MTRR base MSRs use even numbers, masks use odd numbers. */
> > @@ -341,7 +343,7 @@ static void update_mtrr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr)
> > var_mtrr_range(var_mtrr_msr_to_range(vcpu, msr), &start, &end);
> > }
> >
> > - kvm_zap_gfn_range(vcpu->kvm, gpa_to_gfn(start), gpa_to_gfn(end));
> > + kvm_mtrr_zap_gfn_range(vcpu, gpa_to_gfn(start), gpa_to_gfn(end));
> > }
> >
> > static bool var_mtrr_range_is_valid(struct kvm_mtrr_range *range)
> > @@ -437,6 +439,11 @@ int kvm_mtrr_get_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 *pdata)
> > void kvm_vcpu_mtrr_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > {
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vcpu->arch.mtrr_state.head);
> > +
> > + if (vcpu->vcpu_id == 0) {
>
> Eww. This is actually unsafe, because kvm_arch_vcpu_create() is invoked without
> holding kvm->lock. Oh, and vcpu_id is userspace controlled, so it's *very*
> unsafe. Just initialize these in kvm_arch_init_vm().
Will do. Thanks!

>
> > + spin_lock_init(&vcpu->kvm->arch.mtrr_zap_list_lock);
> > + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vcpu->kvm->arch.mtrr_zap_list);
> > + }
> > }