Re: [PATCH 3/7] KVM: x86/pmu: Avoid setting BIT_ULL(-1) to pmu->host_cross_mapped_mask

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Jul 20 2022 - 20:45:51 EST


On Wed, Jul 13, 2022, Like Xu wrote:
> From: Like Xu <likexu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In the extreme case of host counters multiplexing and contention, the
> perf_event requested by the guest's pebs counter is not allocated to any
> actual physical counter, in which case hw.idx is bookkept as -1,
> resulting in an out-of-bounds access to host_cross_mapped_mask.
>
> Fixes: 854250329c02 ("KVM: x86/pmu: Disable guest PEBS temporarily in two rare situations")
> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <likexu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 11 +++++------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c
> index 53ccba896e77..1588627974fa 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c
> @@ -783,20 +783,19 @@ static void intel_pmu_cleanup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> void intel_pmu_cross_mapped_check(struct kvm_pmu *pmu)
> {
> struct kvm_pmc *pmc = NULL;
> - int bit;
> + int bit, hw_idx;
>
> for_each_set_bit(bit, (unsigned long *)&pmu->global_ctrl,
> X86_PMC_IDX_MAX) {
> pmc = intel_pmc_idx_to_pmc(pmu, bit);
>
> if (!pmc || !pmc_speculative_in_use(pmc) ||
> - !intel_pmc_is_enabled(pmc))
> + !intel_pmc_is_enabled(pmc) || !pmc->perf_event)
> continue;
>
> - if (pmc->perf_event && pmc->idx != pmc->perf_event->hw.idx) {
> - pmu->host_cross_mapped_mask |=
> - BIT_ULL(pmc->perf_event->hw.idx);
> - }
> + hw_idx = pmc->perf_event->hw.idx;
> + if (hw_idx != pmc->idx && hw_idx != -1)

How about "hw_idx > 0" so that KVM is a little less dependent on perf's exact
behavior? A comment here would be nice too.

> + pmu->host_cross_mapped_mask |= BIT_ULL(hw_idx);
> }
> }
>
> --
> 2.37.0
>