Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: always allow writing '0' to MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Fri Sep 11 2020 - 13:27:36 EST


On 11/09/20 18:04, Sean Christopherson wrote:

> This doesn't actually verify that @data == 0. kvm_pv_async_pf_enabled()
> returns true iff KVM_ASYNC_PF_ENABLED and KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_INT are
> set, e.g. this would allow setting one and not the other. This also allows
> userspace to set vcpu->arch.apf.msr_en_val to an unsupported value, i.e.
> @data has already been propagated to the vcpu and isn't unwound.
>
> Why not just pivot on @data when lapic_in_kernel() is false? vcpu->arch.apic
> is immutable so there's no need to update apf.msr_en_val in either direction.
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 539ea1cd6020..36969d5ec291 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -2735,7 +2735,7 @@ static int kvm_pv_enable_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 data)
> return 1;
>
> if (!lapic_in_kernel(vcpu))
> - return 1;
> + return data ? 1 : 0;
>
> vcpu->arch.apf.msr_en_val = data;
>
>
>> + return 1;
>> +
>> if (kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init(vcpu->kvm, &vcpu->arch.apf.data, gpa,
>> sizeof(u64)))
>> return 1;
>> --
>> 2.25.4
>>
>

Committed this instead, though.

Paolo