Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: X86: Allow userspace to define the microcode version

From: Nadav Amit
Date: Mon Feb 26 2018 - 21:27:43 EST


Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2018-02-27 9:30 GMT+08:00 Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Linux (among the others) has checks to make sure that certain features
>>> aren't enabled on a certain family/model/stepping if the microcode version
>>> isn't greater than or equal to a known good version.
>>>
>>> By exposing the real microcode version, we're preventing buggy guests that
>>> don't check that they are running virtualized (i.e., they should trust the
>>> hypervisor) from disabling features that are effectively not buggy.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Filippo Sironi <sironi@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> v2 -> v3:
>>> * remove the shifts
>>> * add the MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV version to the "feature MSRs"
>>> v1 -> v2:
>>> * add MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV to emulated_msrs
>>>
>>> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
>>> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
>>> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>> index 938d453..6e13f2f 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>> @@ -507,6 +507,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
>>> u64 smi_count;
>>> bool tpr_access_reporting;
>>> u64 ia32_xss;
>>> + u32 microcode_version;
>>>
>>> /*
>>> * Paging state of the vcpu
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>>> index d4985a9..00af28e 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>>> @@ -1058,6 +1058,7 @@ static unsigned num_emulated_msrs;
>>> static u32 msr_based_features[] = {
>>> MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES,
>>> MSR_F10H_DECFG,
>>> + MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV,
>>> };
>>>
>>> static unsigned int num_msr_based_features;
>>> @@ -1067,8 +1068,14 @@ static int do_get_msr_feature(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned index, u64 *data)
>>> struct kvm_msr_entry msr;
>>>
>>> msr.index = index;
>>> - if (kvm_x86_ops->get_msr_feature(&msr))
>>> - return 1;
>>> + switch (msr.index) {
>>> + case MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV:
>>> + rdmsrl(msr.index, msr.data);
>>> + break;
>>> + default:
>>> + if (kvm_x86_ops->get_msr_feature(&msr))
>>> + return 1;
>>> + }
>>>
>>> *data = msr.data;
>>>
>>> @@ -2248,7 +2255,6 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
>>>
>>> switch (msr) {
>>> case MSR_AMD64_NB_CFG:
>>> - case MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV:
>>> case MSR_IA32_UCODE_WRITE:
>>> case MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA:
>>> case MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LOADER:
>>> @@ -2256,6 +2262,10 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
>>> case MSR_AMD64_DC_CFG:
>>> break;
>>>
>>> + case MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV:
>>> + if (msr_info->host_initiated)
>>> + vcpu->arch.microcode_version = data;
>>> + break;
>>> case MSR_EFER:
>>> return set_efer(vcpu, data);
>>> case MSR_K7_HWCR:
>>> @@ -2551,7 +2561,7 @@ int kvm_get_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
>>> msr_info->data = 0;
>>> break;
>>> case MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV:
>>> - msr_info->data = 0x100000000ULL;
>>> + msr_info->data = (u64)vcpu->arch.microcode_version;
>>
>> I think that the shifts are missing here (the version should be on the high
>> bits according to intel_get_microcode_revision() ).
>
> You are right, it seems that we all miss it before.

Nah. Iâm not that smart. It was ok on v2 ;-)