Re: [PATCH 05/16] KVM: x86/mmu: Use synthetic page fault error code to indicate private faults

[Huang, Kai]

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index 408969ac1291..7807bdcd87e8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -5839,19 +5839,31 @@ int noinline kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t cr2_or_gpa, u64 err
>  	bool direct = vcpu->arch.mmu->root_role.direct;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * IMPLICIT_ACCESS is a KVM-defined flag used to correctly perform SMAP
> -	 * checks when emulating instructions that triggers implicit access.
>  	 * WARN if hardware generates a fault with an error code that collides
> -	 * with the KVM-defined value.  Clear the flag and continue on, i.e.
> -	 * don't terminate the VM, as KVM can't possibly be relying on a flag
> -	 * that KVM doesn't know about.
> +	 * with KVM-defined sythentic flags.  Clear the flags and continue on,
> +	 * i.e. don't terminate the VM, as KVM can't possibly be relying on a
> +	 * flag that KVM doesn't know about.
>  	 */
> -	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(error_code & PFERR_IMPLICIT_ACCESS))
> -		error_code &= ~PFERR_IMPLICIT_ACCESS;
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(error_code & PFERR_SYNTHETIC_MASK))
> +		error_code &= ~PFERR_SYNTHETIC_MASK;
>  

Hmm.. I thought for TDX the caller -- handle_ept_violation() -- should
explicitly set the PFERR_PRIVATE_ACCESS so that here the fault handler can
figure out the fault is private.

Now it seems the caller should never pass PFERR_PRIVATE_ACCESS, then ...

>  	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!VALID_PAGE(vcpu->arch.mmu->root.hpa)))
>  		return RET_PF_RETRY;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Except for reserved faults (emulated MMIO is shared-only), set the
> +	 * private flag for software-protected VMs based on the gfn's current
> +	 * attributes, which are the source of truth for such VMs.  Note, this
> +	 * wrong for nested MMUs as the GPA is an L2 GPA, but KVM doesn't
> +	 * currently supported nested virtualization (among many other things)
> +	 * for software-protected VMs.
> +	 */
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM_SW_PROTECTED_VM) &&
> +	    !(error_code & PFERR_RSVD_MASK) &&
> +	    vcpu->kvm->arch.vm_type == KVM_X86_SW_PROTECTED_VM &&
> +	    kvm_mem_is_private(vcpu->kvm, gpa_to_gfn(cr2_or_gpa)))
> +		error_code |= PFERR_PRIVATE_ACCESS;
> +
> 

... I am wondering how we figure out whether a fault is private for TDX?