Re: [PATCH 08/61] KVM: x86: Warn on zero-size save state for valid CPUID 0xD.N sub-leaf

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Fri Feb 07 2020 - 10:55:07 EST


Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> WARN if the save state size for a valid XCR0-managed sub-leaf is zero,
> which would indicate a KVM or CPU bug. Add a comment to explain why KVM
> WARNs so the reader doesn't have to tease out the relevant bits from
> Intel's SDM and KVM's XCR0/XSS code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 13 ++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index fd9b29aa7abc..424dde41cb5d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -677,10 +677,17 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_func(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function,
> goto out;
>
> do_host_cpuid(&entry[i], function, idx);
> - if (entry[i].eax == 0)
> - continue;
> - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(entry[i].ecx & 1))
> +
> + /*
> + * The @supported check above should have filtered out
> + * invalid sub-leafs as well as sub-leafs managed by

Is it 'sub-leafs' or 'sub-leaves' actually? :-)

> + * IA32_XSS MSR. Only XCR0-managed sub-leafs should
> + * reach this point, and they should have a non-zero
> + * save state size.
> + */
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!entry[i].eax || (entry[i].ecx & 1)))
> continue;
> +
> entry[i].ecx = 0;
> entry[i].edx = 0;
> ++*nent;

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Vitaly