Re: [PATCH 04/10] KVM: x86/mmu: Add Suppress VE bit to EPT shadow_mmio_mask/shadow_present_mask

From: Chao Gao
Date: Mon Apr 15 2024 - 09:23:28 EST


>+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
>@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ enum vmcs_field {
> #define VMX_EPT_IPAT_BIT (1ull << 6)
> #define VMX_EPT_ACCESS_BIT (1ull << 8)
> #define VMX_EPT_DIRTY_BIT (1ull << 9)
>+#define VMX_EPT_SUPPRESS_VE_BIT (1ull << 63)
> #define VMX_EPT_RWX_MASK (VMX_EPT_READABLE_MASK | \
> VMX_EPT_WRITABLE_MASK | \
> VMX_EPT_EXECUTABLE_MASK)
>diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c
>index 6c7ab3aa6aa7..d97c4725c0b7 100644
>--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c
>+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c
>@@ -413,7 +413,9 @@ void kvm_mmu_set_ept_masks(bool has_ad_bits, bool has_exec_only)
> shadow_dirty_mask = has_ad_bits ? VMX_EPT_DIRTY_BIT : 0ull;
> shadow_nx_mask = 0ull;
> shadow_x_mask = VMX_EPT_EXECUTABLE_MASK;
>- shadow_present_mask = has_exec_only ? 0ull : VMX_EPT_READABLE_MASK;
>+ /* VMX_EPT_SUPPRESS_VE_BIT is needed for W or X violation. */
>+ shadow_present_mask =
>+ (has_exec_only ? 0ull : VMX_EPT_READABLE_MASK) | VMX_EPT_SUPPRESS_VE_BIT;

This change makes !shadow_present_mask checks in FNAME(sync_spte) and
make_spte() pointless as shadow_present_mask will never be zero.

And the first sentence below in make_spte() also becomes stale. I suppose
this needs an update.

/*
* For the EPT case, shadow_present_mask is 0 if hardware
* supports exec-only page table entries. In that case,
* ACC_USER_MASK and shadow_user_mask are used to represent
* read access. See FNAME(gpte_access) in paging_tmpl.h.
*/


> /*
> * EPT overrides the host MTRRs, and so KVM must program the desired
> * memtype directly into the SPTEs. Note, this mask is just the mask
>@@ -430,7 +432,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_set_ept_masks(bool has_ad_bits, bool has_exec_only)
> * of an EPT paging-structure entry is 110b (write/execute).
> */
> kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask(VMX_EPT_MISCONFIG_WX_VALUE,
>- VMX_EPT_RWX_MASK, 0);
>+ VMX_EPT_RWX_MASK | VMX_EPT_SUPPRESS_VE_BIT, 0);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_mmu_set_ept_masks);
>
>--
>2.43.0
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