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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: nVMX: Allow VMREAD when Enlightened VMCS is in use
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hyper-V TLFS explicitly forbids VMREAD and VMWRITE instructions when
> Enlightened VMCS interface is in use:
>
> "Any VMREAD or VMWRITE instructions while an enlightened VMCS is
> active is unsupported and can result in unexpected behavior.""
>
> Windows 11 + WSL2 seems to ignore this, attempts to VMREAD VMCS field
> 0x4404 ("VM-exit interruption information") are observed. Failing
> these attempts with nested_vmx_failInvalid() makes such guests
> unbootable.
>
> Microsoft confirms this is a Hyper-V bug and claims that it'll get fixed
> eventually but for the time being we need a workaround. (Temporary) allow
> VMREAD to get data from the currently loaded Enlightened VMCS.
>
> Note: VMWRITE instructions remain forbidden, it is not clear how to
> handle them properly and hopefully won't ever be needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

> + /*
> + * Hyper-V TLFS (as of 6.0b) explicitly states, that while an
> + * enlightened VMCS is active VMREAD/VMWRITE instructions are
> + * unsupported. Unfortunately, certain versions of Windows 11
> + * don't comply with this requirement which is not enforced in
> + * genuine Hyper-V so KVM has implement a workaround allowing to

Nit, missing a "to". But rather say what KVM "has" to do, maybe this?

* genuine Hyper-V. Allow VMREAD from an enlightened VMCS as a
* workaround, as misbehaving guests will panic on VM-Fail.

> + * read from enlightened VMCS with VMREAD.
> + * Note, enlightened VMCS is incompatible with shadow VMCS so
> + * all VMREADs from L2 should go to L1.
> + */
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(is_guest_mode(vcpu)))
> + return nested_vmx_failInvalid(vcpu);
>
> - /* Read the field, zero-extended to a u64 value */
> - value = vmcs12_read_any(vmcs12, field, offset);
> + offset = evmcs_field_offset(field, NULL);
> + if (offset < 0)
> + return nested_vmx_fail(vcpu, VMXERR_UNSUPPORTED_VMCS_COMPONENT);
> +
> + /* Read the field, zero-extended to a u64 value */
> + value = evmcs_read_any(vmx->nested.hv_evmcs, field, offset);
> + }
>
> /*
> * Now copy part of this value to register or memory, as requested.
> --
> 2.33.1
>

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