Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: SVM: Treat all "skip" emulation for SEV guests as outright failures

[Sean Christopherson]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2023, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 8/24/23 20:36, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Treat EMULTYPE_SKIP failures on SEV guests as unhandleable emulation
> > instead of simply resuming the guest, and drop the hack-a-fix which
> > effects that behavior for the INT3/INTO injection path.  If KVM can't
> > skip an instruction for which KVM has already done partial emulation,
> > resuming the guest is undesirable as doing so may corrupt guest state.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 12 +-----------
> >   arch/x86/kvm/x86.c     |  9 +++++++--
> >   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> > index 39ce680013c4..fc2cd5585349 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> > @@ -364,8 +364,6 @@ static void svm_set_interrupt_shadow(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int mask)
> >   		svm->vmcb->control.int_state |= SVM_INTERRUPT_SHADOW_MASK;
> >   }
> > -static int svm_check_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int emul_type,
> > -					 void *insn, int insn_len);
> >   static int __svm_skip_emulated_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >   					   bool commit_side_effects)
> > @@ -386,14 +384,6 @@ static int __svm_skip_emulated_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >   	}
> >   	if (!svm->next_rip) {
> > -		/*
> > -		 * FIXME: Drop this when kvm_emulate_instruction() does the
> > -		 * right thing and treats "can't emulate" as outright failure
> > -		 * for EMULTYPE_SKIP.
> > -		 */
> > -		if (svm_check_emulate_instruction(vcpu, EMULTYPE_SKIP, NULL, 0) != X86EMUL_CONTINUE)
> > -			return 0;
> > -
> >   		if (unlikely(!commit_side_effects))
> >   			old_rflags = svm->vmcb->save.rflags;
> > @@ -4752,7 +4742,7 @@ static int svm_check_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int emul_type,
> >   	 */
> >   	if (unlikely(!insn)) {
> >   		if (emul_type & EMULTYPE_SKIP)
> > -			return X86EMUL_RETRY_INSTR;
> > +			return X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE;
> 
> Trying to follow this, bear with me...
> 
> This results in an "emulation failure" which fills out all the KVM userspace
> exit information in prepare_emulation_failure_exit(). But because of the
> return 0 in handle_emulation_failure(), in the end this ends up just acting
> like the first patch because we exit out svm_update_soft_interrupt_rip()
> early and the instruction just gets retried?

Yep.  It's a bit more labyrinthian than I'd like, but the soft injection already
relies on this behavior to handle the case where x86_decode_emulated_instruction()
fails.  That's a much more theoretical path, but I'm pretty sure if could trigger
if the guest is replacing the INT3 from a different vCPU and KVM's emulator doesn't
know how to decode the new instruction.