On Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:36:40 +0100, Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei@arm.com wrote:
Hi Marc,
On 4/7/21 7:13 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On vcpu reset, we expect all the registers to be brought back to their initial state, which happens to be a bunch of zeroes.
However, some recent commit broke this, and is now leaving a bunch of registers (such as a FP state) with whatever was left by the guest. My bad.
Just zero the whole vcpu context on reset. It is more than we strictly need, but at least we won't miss anything. This also zeroes the __hyp_running_vcpu pointer, which is always NULL for a vcpu anyway.
Had a look at struct kvm_cpu_context and indeed the only field which doesn't represent a guest register is __hyp_running_vcpu. Did a grep for all the places where __hyp_running_vcpu is used, and indeed the assumption is that for a guest the pointer is NULL, as __sysreg_restore_el1_state() relies on it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: e47c2055c68e ("KVM: arm64: Make struct kvm_regs userspace-only") Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org
arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c index bd354cd45d28..ef1c49a1a3ad 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c @@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ int kvm_reset_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) break; }
- /* Reset core registers */
- memset(vcpu_gp_regs(vcpu), 0, sizeof(*vcpu_gp_regs(vcpu)));
- /* Zero all registers */
- memset(&vcpu->arch.ctxt, 0, sizeof(vcpu->arch.ctxt));
Checked that code earlier in the function does not touch the guest registers from vcpu->arch.ctxt, to make sure we're not overwriting other reset values by mistake. Looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei@arm.com
Scratch that, this is breaks the setting of CNTVOFF, which gets populated when we create the vcpu. The gotcha is that creating a vcpu resets CNTVOFF for *all* vcpus:
* If the VMM creates all vcpus, then reset them all, this works "fine": all the vcpus have CNTVOFF==0, which is an acceptable departure from the current behaviour (where vtime starts at 0).
* If the VMM alternates vcpu creation and reset, then the last vcpu ends up with a CNTVOFF set to 0, while all the others have a different offset.
QEMU does the former, and kvmtool the latter. Thanks to Will for the heads up. I'll drop the patch from -next and post a v2 shortly.
Thanks,
M.