Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Use accessor to read vmcs.INTR_INFO when handling exception

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Apr 27 2020 - 13:28:12 EST


On 27/04/20 19:18, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Use vmx_get_intr_info() when grabbing the cached vmcs.INTR_INFO in
> handle_exception_nmi() to ensure the cache isn't stale. Bypassing the
> caching accessor doesn't cause any known issues as the cache is always
> refreshed by handle_exception_nmi_irqoff(), but the whole point of
> adding the proper caching mechanism was to avoid such dependencies.
>
> Fixes: 8791585837f6 ("KVM: VMX: Cache vmcs.EXIT_INTR_INFO using arch avail_reg flags")
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> index 3ab6ca6062ce..7bddcb24f6f3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -4677,7 +4677,7 @@ static int handle_exception_nmi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> u32 vect_info;
>
> vect_info = vmx->idt_vectoring_info;
> - intr_info = vmx->exit_intr_info;
> + intr_info = vmx_get_intr_info(vcpu);
>
> if (is_machine_check(intr_info) || is_nmi(intr_info))
> return 1; /* handled by handle_exception_nmi_irqoff() */
>

Hasn't this been applied already?

Paolo