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

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Mon Apr 27 2020 - 13:32:44 EST


On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 07:28:02PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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?

No, I missed this case in the original patch, and the other fix was for
incorrect sizing of an exit_qual variable.