Re: [PATCH v4 10/12] KVM: x86: never write to memory from kvm_vcpu_check_block()

[Sean Christopherson]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2023, Jim Mattson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 8:21 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Doh.  We got the less obvious cases and missed the obvious one.
> >
> > Ugh, and we also missed a related mess in kvm_guest_apic_has_interrupt().  That
> > thing should really be folded into vmx_has_nested_events().
> >
> > Good gravy.  And vmx_interrupt_blocked() does the wrong thing because that
> > specifically checks if L1 interrupts are blocked.
> >
> > Compile tested only, and definitely needs to be chunked into multiple patches,
> > but I think something like this mess?
> 
> The proposed patch does not fix the problem. In fact, it messes things
> up so much that I don't get any test results back.

Drat.

> Google has an internal K-U-T test that demonstrates the problem. I
> will post it soon.

Received, I'll dig in soonish, though "soonish" might unfortunately might mean
2024.