Re: [Question] int3 instruction generates a #UD in SEV VM

[Sean Christopherson]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2023, Wu Zongyo wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 11:27:12AM +0800, Wu Zongyo wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm guessing it was a #NPF, too. Could it be related to the changes that
> > > > > went in around svm_update_soft_interrupt_rip()?
> > Yes, it's a #NPF with exit code 0x400.
> > 
> > There must be something I didn't handle corretly since it behave normally with
> > qemu & ovmf If I don't add int3 before mcheck_cpu_init().
> > 
> > So it'a about memory, is there something I need to pay special attention
> > to?
> > 
> > Thanks
> I check the fault address of #NPF, and it is the IDT entry address of
> the guest kernel. The NPT page table is not constructed for the IDT
> entry and the #NPF is generated when guest try to access IDT.
> 
> With qemu & ovmf, I didn't see the #NPF when guest invoke the int3
> handler. That means the NPT page table has already been constructed, but
> when?

More than likely, the page was used by the guest at some point earlier in boot.
Why the page is faulted in for certain setups but not others isn't really all
that interesting in terms of fixing the KVM bug, both guest behaviors are completely
normal and should work.

Can you try this patch I suggested earlier?  If this fixes the problem, I'll post
a formal patch.

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index d381ad424554..2eace114a934 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -385,6 +385,9 @@ static int __svm_skip_emulated_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
        }

        if (!svm->next_rip) {
+               if (sev_guest(vcpu->kvm))
+                       return 0;
+
                if (unlikely(!commit_side_effects))
                        old_rflags = svm->vmcb->save.rflags;