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KVM: x86/mmu: Use dummy root, backed by zero page, for !visible guest roots
When attempting to allocate a shadow root for a !visible guest root gfn,
e.g. that resides in MMIO space, load a dummy root that is backed by the
zero page instead of immediately synthesizing a triple fault shutdown
(using the zero page ensures any attempt to translate memory will generate
a !PRESENT fault and thus VM-Exit).
Unless the vCPU is racing with memslot activity, KVM will inject a page
fault due to not finding a visible slot in FNAME(walk_addr_generic), i.e.
the end result is mostly same, but critically KVM will inject a fault only
*after* KVM runs the vCPU with the bogus root.
Waiting to inject a fault until after running the vCPU fixes a bug where
KVM would bail from nested VM-Enter if L1 tried to run L2 with TDP enabled
and a !visible root. Even though a bad root will *probably* lead to
shutdown, (a) it's not guaranteed and (b) the CPU won't read the
underlying memory until after VM-Enter succeeds. E.g. if L1 runs L2 with
a VMX preemption timer value of '0', then architecturally the preemption
timer VM-Exit is guaranteed to occur before the CPU executes any
instruction, i.e. before the CPU needs to translate a GPA to a HPA (so
long as there are no injected events with higher priority than the
preemption timer).
If KVM manages to get to FNAME(fetch) with a dummy root, e.g. because
userspace created a memslot between installing the dummy root and handling
the page fault, simply unload the MMU to allocate a new root and retry the
instruction. Use KVM_REQ_MMU_FREE_OBSOLETE_ROOTS to drop the root, as
invoking kvm_mmu_free_roots() while holding mmu_lock would deadlock, and
conceptually the dummy root has indeeed become obsolete. The only
difference versus existing usage of KVM_REQ_MMU_FREE_OBSOLETE_ROOTS is
that the root has become obsolete due to memslot *creation*, not memslot
deletion or movement.
Reported-by: Reima Ishii <ishiir@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Cc: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230729005200.1057358-6-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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