Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Don't intercept IRET when injecting NMI and vNMI is enabled

From: Santosh Shukla
Date: Sat Oct 14 2023 - 06:16:37 EST




On 10/10/2023 8:16 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>> У пн, 2023-10-09 у 14:29 -0700, Sean Christopherson пише:
>>> Note, per the APM, hardware sets the BLOCKING flag when software directly
>>> directly injects an NMI:
>>>
>>> If Event Injection is used to inject an NMI when NMI Virtualization is
>>> enabled, VMRUN sets V_NMI_MASK in the guest state.
>>
>> I think that this comment is not needed in the commit message. It describes
>> a different unrelated concern and can be put somewhere in the code but
>> not in the commit message.
>
> I strongly disagree, this blurb in the APM directly affects the patch. If hardware
> didn't set V_NMI_MASK, then the patch would need to be at least this:
>
> --
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> index b7472ad183b9..d34ee3b8293e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> @@ -3569,8 +3569,12 @@ static void svm_inject_nmi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> if (svm->nmi_l1_to_l2)
> return;
>
> - svm->nmi_masked = true;
> - svm_set_iret_intercept(svm);
> + if (is_vnmi_enabled(svm)) {
> + svm->vmcb->control.int_ctl |= V_NMI_BLOCKING_MASK;
> + } else {
> + svm->nmi_masked = true;
> + svm_set_iret_intercept(svm);
> + }
> ++vcpu->stat.nmi_injections;
> }
>
>

quick testing worked fine, KUT test ran fine and tested for non-nested mode so far.
Will do more nested testing and share the feedback.

Thanks,
Santosh

> base-commit: 86701e115030e020a052216baa942e8547e0b487