[PATCH 10/54] KVM: x86/mmu: Replace EPT shadow page shenanigans with simpler check

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Jun 22 2021 - 13:58:53 EST


Replace the hack to identify nested EPT shadow pages with a simple check
that the size of the guest PTEs associated with the shadow page and the
current MMU match, which is the intent of the "8 bytes == PAE" test.
The nested EPT hack existed to avoid a false negative due to the is_pae()
check not matching for 32-bit L2 guests; checking the MMU role directly
avoids the indirect calculation of the guest PTE size entirely.

Note, this should be a glorified nop now that __kvm_sync_page() is called
if and only if the role is an exact match (kvm_mmu_get_page()) or is part
of the current MMU context (kvm_mmu_sync_roots()). A future commit will
convert the likely-pointless check into a meaningful WARN to enforce that
the mmu_roles of the current context and the shadow page are compatible.

Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst | 3 ---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 16 +++-------------
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst
index 20d85daed395..ddbb23998742 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst
@@ -192,9 +192,6 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
Contains the value of cr4.smap && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid
(pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the
treatment of cr0.wp=0 below).
- role.ept_sp:
- This is a virtual flag to denote a shadowed nested EPT page. ept_sp
- is true if "cr0_wp && smap_andnot_wp", an otherwise invalid combination.
role.smm:
Is 1 if the page is valid in system management mode. This field
determines which of the kvm_memslots array was used to build this
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 99d26859021d..9f277c5bab76 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -1780,16 +1780,13 @@ static void kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(struct kvm *kvm,
&(_kvm)->arch.mmu_page_hash[kvm_page_table_hashfn(_gfn)]) \
if ((_sp)->gfn != (_gfn) || (_sp)->role.direct) {} else

-static inline bool is_ept_sp(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
-{
- return sp->role.cr0_wp && sp->role.smap_andnot_wp;
-}
-
/* @sp->gfn should be write-protected at the call site */
static bool __kvm_sync_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp,
struct list_head *invalid_list)
{
- if ((!is_ept_sp(sp) && sp->role.gpte_is_8_bytes != !!is_pae(vcpu)) ||
+ union kvm_mmu_page_role mmu_role = vcpu->arch.mmu->mmu_role.base;
+
+ if (sp->role.gpte_is_8_bytes != mmu_role.gpte_is_8_bytes ||
vcpu->arch.mmu->sync_page(vcpu, sp) == 0) {
kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(vcpu->kvm, sp, invalid_list);
return false;
@@ -4721,13 +4718,6 @@ kvm_calc_shadow_ept_root_page_role(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool accessed_dirty,
role.base.guest_mode = true;
role.base.access = ACC_ALL;

- /*
- * WP=1 and NOT_WP=1 is an impossible combination, use WP and the
- * SMAP variation to denote shadow EPT entries.
- */
- role.base.cr0_wp = true;
- role.base.smap_andnot_wp = true;
-
role.ext = kvm_calc_mmu_role_ext(vcpu);
role.ext.execonly = execonly;

--
2.32.0.288.g62a8d224e6-goog