[RFC Part2 PATCH v3 26/26] KVM: X86: Restart the guest when insn_len is zero and SEV is enabled

From: Brijesh Singh
Date: Mon Jul 24 2017 - 16:12:28 EST


On AMD platform, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF.
This can happen if guest gets a page-fault on data access, but HW table
walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instuction page
is not present in memory).

Typically, when insn_len is zero, x86_emulate_instruction() walks the
guest page table and fetches the instruction bytes from guest memory.
When SEV is enabled, the guest memory is encrypted with guest-specific
key hence hypervisor will not able to fetch the instruction bytes.
In those cases we simply restart the guest.

I have encountered this issue when running kernbench inside the guest.

Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index ccb70b8..be41ad0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -4850,6 +4850,23 @@ int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u64 error_code,
if (mmio_info_in_cache(vcpu, cr2, direct))
emulation_type = 0;
emulate:
+ /*
+ * On AMD platform, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF.
+ * This can happen if guest gets a page-fault on data access, but HW table
+ * walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instuction page
+ * is not present).
+ *
+ * Typically, when insn_len is zero, x86_emulate_instruction() walks the
+ * guest page table and fetches the instruction bytes. When SEV is active,
+ * the guest memory is encrypted with guest key hence we will not able to
+ * fetch the instruction bytes. In those cases we simply restart the guest.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(!insn_len)) {
+ if (kvm_x86_ops->memory_encryption_enabled &&
+ kvm_x86_ops->memory_encryption_enabled(vcpu))
+ return 1;
+ }
+
er = x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, cr2, emulation_type, insn, insn_len);

switch (er) {
--
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