[PATCH v4 2/7] nSVM: introduce smv->nested.save to cache save area fields

From: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
Date: Wed Nov 03 2021 - 07:53:43 EST


This is useful in next patch, to avoid having temporary
copies of vmcb12 registers and passing them manually.

Right now, instead of blindly copying everything,
we just copy EFER, CR0, CR3, CR4, DR6 and DR7. If more fields
will need to be added, it will be more obvious to see
that they must be added in struct vmcb_save_area_cached and
in nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache().

_nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache() takes a vmcb_save_area_cached
parameter, useful when we want to save the state to a local
variable instead of svm internals.

Note that in svm_set_nested_state() we want to cache the L2
save state only if we are in normal non guest mode, because
otherwise it is not touched.

Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 9470933c77cd..b974b0edd9b5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -313,6 +313,28 @@ void nested_load_control_from_vmcb12(struct vcpu_svm *svm,
svm->nested.ctl.iopm_base_pa &= ~0x0fffULL;
}

+static void _nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache(struct vmcb_save_area_cached *to,
+ struct vmcb_save_area *from)
+{
+ /*
+ * Copy only fields that are validated, as we need them
+ * to avoid TOC/TOU races.
+ */
+ to->efer = from->efer;
+ to->cr0 = from->cr0;
+ to->cr3 = from->cr3;
+ to->cr4 = from->cr4;
+
+ to->dr6 = from->dr6;
+ to->dr7 = from->dr7;
+}
+
+void nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache(struct vcpu_svm *svm,
+ struct vmcb_save_area *save)
+{
+ _nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache(&svm->nested.save, save);
+}
+
/*
* Synchronize fields that are written by the processor, so that
* they can be copied back into the vmcb12.
@@ -649,6 +671,7 @@ int nested_svm_vmrun(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return -EINVAL;

nested_load_control_from_vmcb12(svm, &vmcb12->control);
+ nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache(svm, &vmcb12->save);

if (!nested_vmcb_valid_sregs(vcpu, &vmcb12->save) ||
!nested_vmcb_check_controls(vcpu, &svm->nested.ctl)) {
@@ -1370,8 +1393,10 @@ static int svm_set_nested_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,

if (is_guest_mode(vcpu))
svm_leave_nested(svm);
- else
+ else {
svm->nested.vmcb02.ptr->save = svm->vmcb01.ptr->save;
+ nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache(svm, &svm->nested.vmcb02.ptr->save);
+ }

svm_set_gif(svm, !!(kvm_state->flags & KVM_STATE_NESTED_GIF_SET));

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 989685098b3e..6565a3efabd1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -4378,6 +4378,7 @@ static int svm_leave_smm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const char *smstate)

vmcb12 = map.hva;
nested_load_control_from_vmcb12(svm, &vmcb12->control);
+ nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache(svm, &vmcb12->save);
ret = enter_svm_guest_mode(vcpu, vmcb12_gpa, vmcb12, false);

unmap_save:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
index 5d30db599e10..09621f4891f8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -103,6 +103,19 @@ struct kvm_vmcb_info {
uint64_t asid_generation;
};

+/*
+ * This struct is not kept up-to-date, and it is only valid within
+ * svm_set_nested_state and nested_svm_vmrun.
+ */
+struct vmcb_save_area_cached {
+ u64 efer;
+ u64 cr4;
+ u64 cr3;
+ u64 cr0;
+ u64 dr7;
+ u64 dr6;
+};
+
struct svm_nested_state {
struct kvm_vmcb_info vmcb02;
u64 hsave_msr;
@@ -119,6 +132,7 @@ struct svm_nested_state {

/* cache for control fields of the guest */
struct vmcb_control_area ctl;
+ struct vmcb_save_area_cached save;

bool initialized;
};
@@ -485,6 +499,8 @@ int nested_svm_check_exception(struct vcpu_svm *svm, unsigned nr,
int nested_svm_exit_special(struct vcpu_svm *svm);
void nested_load_control_from_vmcb12(struct vcpu_svm *svm,
struct vmcb_control_area *control);
+void nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache(struct vcpu_svm *svm,
+ struct vmcb_save_area *save);
void nested_sync_control_from_vmcb02(struct vcpu_svm *svm);
void nested_vmcb02_compute_g_pat(struct vcpu_svm *svm);
void svm_switch_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm, struct kvm_vmcb_info *target_vmcb);
--
2.27.0