From: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com
commit 4984563823f0034d3533854c1b50e729f5191089 upstream.
Extend VMX's nested intercept logic for emulated instructions to handle "pause" interception, in quotes because KVM's emulator doesn't filter out NOPs when checking for nested intercepts. Failure to allow emulation of NOPs results in KVM injecting a #UD into L2 on any NOP that collides with the emulator's definition of PAUSE, i.e. on all single-byte NOPs.
For PAUSE itself, honor L1's PAUSE-exiting control, but ignore PLE to avoid unnecessarily injecting a #UD into L2. Per the SDM, the first execution of PAUSE after VM-Entry is treated as the beginning of a new loop, i.e. will never trigger a PLE VM-Exit, and so L1 can't expect any given execution of PAUSE to deterministically exit.
... the processor considers this execution to be the first execution of PAUSE in a loop. (It also does so for the first execution of PAUSE at CPL 0 after VM entry.)
All that said, the PLE side of things is currently a moot point, as KVM doesn't expose PLE to L1.
Note, vmx_check_intercept() is still wildly broken when L1 wants to intercept an instruction, as KVM injects a #UD instead of synthesizing a nested VM-Exit. That issue extends far beyond NOP/PAUSE and needs far more effort to fix, i.e. is a problem for the future.
Fixes: 07721feee46b ("KVM: nVMX: Don't emulate instructions in guest mode") Cc: Mathias Krause minipli@grsecurity.net Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230405002359.418138-1-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -13878,6 +13878,21 @@ static int vmx_check_intercept(struct kv /* FIXME: produce nested vmexit and return X86EMUL_INTERCEPTED. */ break;
+ case x86_intercept_pause: + /* + * PAUSE is a single-byte NOP with a REPE prefix, i.e. collides + * with vanilla NOPs in the emulator. Apply the interception + * check only to actual PAUSE instructions. Don't check + * PAUSE-loop-exiting, software can't expect a given PAUSE to + * exit, i.e. KVM is within its rights to allow L2 to execute + * the PAUSE. + */ + if ((info->rep_prefix != REPE_PREFIX) || + !nested_cpu_has2(vmcs12, CPU_BASED_PAUSE_EXITING)) + return X86EMUL_CONTINUE; + + break; + /* TODO: check more intercepts... */ default: break;