Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: Fix XSAVE related bugs

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Sep 20 2022 - 15:19:28 EST


On Wed, Aug 24, 2022, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Sean Christopherson (seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Patch 2 (from Dave) is the headliner and fixes a bug where KVM clear the
> > FP+SSE bits in user_xfeatures when XSAVE is hidden from the guest and thus
> > prevent userspace from saving/restoring FP+SSE state on XSAVE host. This
> > most visibily manifests as a failed migration (KVM_GET_XSAVE succeeds on a
> > non-XSAVE host and KVM_SET_XSAVE fails on an XSAVE host), but also causes
> > KVM_GET_SAVE on XSAVE hosts to effectively corrupt guest FP+SSE state.
> >
> > Patch 1 fixes a mostly theoretical bug, and is also a prerequisite for
> > patch 2.
> >
> > Patch 3 fixes a bug found by inspection when staring at all of this. KVM
> > fails to check CR4.OSXSAVE when emulating XSETBV (the interception case
> > gets away without the check because the intercept happens after hardware
> > checks CR4).
>
> Thanks for pulling those together; the set of 3 passes my same (light) smoke test.

Paolo, do you want to grab this series for 6.0?