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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/kvm/nVMCS: fix VMCLEAR when Enlightened VMCS is in use
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> On 25 Jun 2019, at 14:15, Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> writes:
>
>>> On 25 Jun 2019, at 11:51, Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>> On 24 Jun 2019, at 16:30, Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> +bool nested_enlightened_vmentry(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *evmptr)
>>>>
>>>> I prefer to rename evmptr to evmcs_ptr. I think it’s more readable and sufficiently short.
>>>> In addition, I think you should return either -1ull or assist_page.current_nested_vmcs.
>>>> i.e. Don’t return evmcs_ptr by pointer but instead as a return-value
>>>> and get rid of the bool.
>>>
>>> Actually no, sorry, I'm having second thoughts here: in handle_vmclear()
>>> we don't care about the value of evmcs_ptr, we only want to check that
>>> enlightened vmentry bit is enabled in assist page. If we switch to
>>> checking evmcs_ptr against '-1', for example, we will make '-1' a magic
>>> value which is not in the TLFS. Windows may decide to use it for
>>> something else - and we will get a hard-to-debug bug again.
>>
>> I’m not sure I understand.
>> You are worried that when guest have setup a valid assist-page and set
>> enlighten_vmentry to true,
>> that assist_page.current_nested_vmcs can be -1ull and still be considered a valid eVMCS?
>> I don't think that's reasonable.
>
> No, -1ull is not a valid eVMCS - but this shouldn't change VMCLEAR
> semantics as VMCLEAR has it's own argument. It's perfectly valid to try
> to put a eVMCS which was previously used on a different vCPU (and thus
> which is 'active') to non-active state. The fact that we don't have an
> active eVMCS on the vCPU doing VMCLEAR shouldn't matter at all.
>
> --
> Vitaly

Oh oops sure. Yes you are right.
I forgot about the larger context here for a moment.
Sorry for the confusion. :)

-Liran

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