Re: [PATCH 11/15] KVM: VMX: Update vmcs.GUEST_CR3 only when the guest CR3 is dirty

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Dec 15 2021 - 12:10:53 EST


On 12/15/21 17:45, Sean Christopherson wrote:
The better place for this is the path in vmx_set_cr0() that handles EPT + !URG.
I believe nested_vmx_restore_host_state(), which is used to restore host state if
hardware detects a VM-Fail that KVM misses on nested VM-Enter, is also missing a
call to mark CR3 dirty.

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 2f6f465e575f..b0c3eb80f5d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -4426,7 +4426,7 @@ static void nested_vmx_restore_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

nested_ept_uninit_mmu_context(vcpu);
vcpu->arch.cr3 = vmcs_readl(GUEST_CR3);
- kvm_register_mark_available(vcpu, VCPU_EXREG_CR3);
+ kvm_register_mark_dirty(vcpu, VCPU_EXREG_CR3);

/*
* Use ept_save_pdptrs(vcpu) to load the MMU's cached PDPTRs

Yes, I agree. Jiangshan, please send all your fixes tomorrow, or tell me if you prefer that I push the reverts to kvm/next.

Paolo