Re: [PATCH v4 16/29] KVM: x86: Reject memslot MOVE operations if KVMGT is attached

From: Like Xu
Date: Wed Aug 30 2023 - 15:30:49 EST


On 2023/7/29 09:35, Sean Christopherson wrote:
Disallow moving memslots if the VM has external page-track users, i.e. if
KVMGT is being used to expose a virtual GPU to the guest, as KVMGT doesn't
correctly handle moving memory regions.

Note, this is potential ABI breakage! E.g. userspace could move regions
that aren't shadowed by KVMGT without harming the guest. However, the
only known user of KVMGT is QEMU, and QEMU doesn't move generic memory

This change breaks two kvm selftests:

- set_memory_region_test;
- memslot_perf_test;

Please help confirm if the tests/doc needs to be updated,
or if the assumption needs to be further clarified.

regions. KVM's own support for moving memory regions was also broken for
multiple years (albeit for an edge case, but arguably moving RAM is
itself an edge case), e.g. see commit edd4fa37baa6 ("KVM: x86: Allocate
new rmap and large page tracking when moving memslot").

Reviewed-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Yongwei Ma <yongwei.ma@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h | 3 +++
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c | 5 +++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h
index 8c4d216e3b2b..f744682648e7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h
@@ -75,4 +75,7 @@ kvm_page_track_unregister_notifier(struct kvm *kvm,
void kvm_page_track_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, const u8 *new,
int bytes);
void kvm_page_track_flush_slot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot);
+
+bool kvm_page_track_has_external_user(struct kvm *kvm);
+
#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
index 891e5cc52b45..e6de9638e560 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
@@ -303,3 +303,8 @@ void kvm_page_track_flush_slot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
n->track_flush_slot(kvm, slot, n);
srcu_read_unlock(&head->track_srcu, idx);
}
+
+bool kvm_page_track_has_external_user(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+ return hlist_empty(&kvm->arch.track_notifier_head.track_notifier_list);
+}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 059571d5abed..4394bb49051f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -12606,6 +12606,13 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
struct kvm_memory_slot *new,
enum kvm_mr_change change)
{
+ /*
+ * KVM doesn't support moving memslots when there are external page
+ * trackers attached to the VM, i.e. if KVMGT is in use.
+ */
+ if (change == KVM_MR_MOVE && kvm_page_track_has_external_user(kvm))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (change == KVM_MR_CREATE || change == KVM_MR_MOVE) {
if ((new->base_gfn + new->npages - 1) > kvm_mmu_max_gfn())
return -EINVAL;