Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: relax check on H_SVM_INIT_ABORT

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Wed May 27 2020 - 00:21:05 EST


On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 07:43:08PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> The commit 8c47b6ff29e3 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check caller of H_SVM_*
> Hcalls") added checks of secure bit of SRR1 to filter out the Hcall
> reserved to the Ultravisor.
>
> However, the Hcall H_SVM_INIT_ABORT is made by the Ultravisor passing the
> context of the VM calling UV_ESM. This allows the Hypervisor to return to
> the guest without going through the Ultravisor. Thus the Secure bit of SRR1
> is not set in that particular case.
>
> In the case a regular VM is calling H_SVM_INIT_ABORT, this hcall will be
> filtered out in kvmppc_h_svm_init_abort() because kvm->arch.secure_guest is
> not set in that case.
>
> Fixes: 8c47b6ff29e3 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check caller of H_SVM_* Hcalls")
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied to my kvm-ppc-next branch. I expanded the comment in
the code a little.

Paul.