Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Dirtying, failing memop: don't indicate suppression

[Janosch Frank]

On 4/26/22 08:19, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Am 25.04.22 um 19:29 schrieb Janis Schoetterl-Glausch:
> > On 4/25/22 18:30, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > > Am 25.04.22 um 12:01 schrieb Janis Schoetterl-Glausch:
> > > > If a memop fails due to key checked protection, after already having
> > > > written to the guest, don't indicate suppression to the guest, as that
> > > > would imply that memory wasn't modified.
> > > >
> > > > This could be considered a fix to the code introducing storage key
> > > > support, however this is a bug in KVM only if we emulate an
> > > > instructions writing to an operand spanning multiple pages, which I
> > > > don't believe we do.
> > >
> > > Thanks applied. I think it makes sense for 5.18 nevertheless.
> >
> > Janosch had some concerns because the protection code being 000 implies
> > that the effective address in the TEID is unpredictable.
> > Let's see if he chimes in.
>
> z/VM does exactly the same on key protection crossing a page boundary. The
> architecture was written in a way to allow all zeros exactly for this case.
> (hypervisor emulation of key protection crossing pages).
> This is even true for ESOP-2. See Figure 3-5 or figure 3-8 (the first line)
> which allows to NOT have a valid address in the TEID for key controlled
> protection.
>
> The only question is, do we need to change the suppression parameter in
> access_guest_with_key
>
>    (mode != GACC_STORE) || (idx == 0)
>
> to also check for prot != PROT_TYPE_KEYC
> ? I think we do not need this as we have checked other reasons before.

To me this measure looks like a last resort option and the POP doesn't 
state a 100% what is to be done. Some instructions can mandate 
suppression instead of termination according to the architects.

My intuition tells me that if we are in a situation where this would 
happen then we would be much better off just doing it by hand (i.e. in 
the instruction emulation code) and not letting this function decide.

So I'm not entirely sure if we're replacing something that is not 
correct with something that also won't be correct for all cases.

But to summarize this: I'm not entirely sure even after reading the POP 
for more than an hour and consulting an architect