Re: [PATCH 03/15] KVM: SVM: Inject #UD on RDTSCP when it should be disabled in the guest

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/05/21 18:56, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 14:58 -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 2:57 PM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On 04/05/21 23:53, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > > > > Does the right thing happen here if the vCPU is in guest mode when
> > > > > > userspace decides to toggle the CPUID.80000001H:EDX.RDTSCP bit on or
> > > > > > off?
> > > > > I hate our terminology.  By "guest mode", do you mean running the vCPU, or do
> > > > > you specifically mean running in L2?
> > > >
> > > > Guest mode should mean L2.
> > > >
> > > > (I wonder if we should have a capability that says "KVM_SET_CPUID2 can
> > > > only be called prior to KVM_RUN").
> > >
> > > It would certainly make it easier to reason about potential security issues.
> > I vote too for this.
>
> Alternatively, what about adding KVM_VCPU_RESET to let userspace explicitly
> pull RESET#, and defining that ioctl() to freeze the vCPU model?  I.e. after
> userspace resets the vCPU, KVM_SET_CPUID (and any other relevant ioctls() is
> disallowed.
>
> Lack of proper RESET emulation is annoying, e.g. userspace has to manually stuff
> EDX after vCPU creation to get the right value at RESET.  A dedicated ioctl()
> would kill two birds with one stone, without having to add yet another "2"
> ioctl().

That has a disadvantage of opting into the more secure behavior, but we 
can do both (forbidding KVM_SET_CPUID2 after both KVM_RUN and KVM_RESET).

Paolo