Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 3 authors, 2024-05-23

Re: [PATCH v2 03/11] KVM: arm64: Make kvm_skip_instr() and co private to HYP

From: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Date: 2021-05-09 13:10:21
Also in: kvm, kvmarm

On 2021/5/6 22:29, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On Thu, 06 May 2021 12:43:26 +0100,
Zenghui Yu [off-list ref] wrote:
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On 2021/5/6 14:33, Marc Zyngier wrote:
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On Wed, 05 May 2021 17:46:51 +0100,
Marc Zyngier [off-list ref] wrote:
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Hi Zenghui,

On Wed, 05 May 2021 15:23:02 +0100,
Zenghui Yu [off-list ref] wrote:
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Hi Marc,

On 2020/11/3 0:40, Marc Zyngier wrote:
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In an effort to remove the vcpu PC manipulations from EL1 on nVHE
systems, move kvm_skip_instr() to be HYP-specific. EL1's intent
to increment PC post emulation is now signalled via a flag in the
vcpu structure.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
[...]
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@@ -133,6 +134,8 @@ static int __kvm_vcpu_run_vhe(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	__load_guest_stage2(vcpu->arch.hw_mmu);
 	__activate_traps(vcpu);
+	__adjust_pc(vcpu);
If the INCREMENT_PC flag was set (e.g., for WFx emulation) while we're
handling PSCI CPU_ON call targetting this VCPU, the *target_pc* (aka
entry point address, normally provided by the primary VCPU) will be
unexpectedly incremented here. That's pretty bad, I think.
How can you online a CPU using PSCI if that CPU is currently spinning
on a WFI? Or is that we have transitioned via userspace to perform the
vcpu reset? I can imagine it happening in that case.
I hadn't tried to reset VCPU from userspace. That would be a much easier
way to reproduce this problem.
Then I don't understand how you end-up there. If the vcpu was in WFI,
it wasn't off and PSCI_CPU_ON doesn't have any effect.
I'm sorry for the misleading words.

The reported problem (secondary vcpu entry point corruption) was noticed
after a guest reboot. On rebooting, all vcpus will go back to userspace,
either because of a vcpu PSCI_SYSTEM_RESET call (with a
KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_RESET system event in result), or because of a pending
signal targetting the vcpu thread. Userspace (I used QEMU) will then
perform the vcpu reset using the KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl, of course!

WFI is the last instruction executed by the secondary vcpu before
rebooting. Emulating it results in a PC-altering flag.

What I was going to say is that maybe we can reproduce this problem with
a much simpler userspace program (not QEMU, no reboot) -- perform vcpu
reset while the vcpu is concurrently executing WFI, and see if the
result PC is set to 0 (per the KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT doc). Maybe we can
achieve it with a kvm selftest case but "I hadn't tried", which turned
out to be misleading.

I'll have a look at your branch.


Thanks,
Zenghui

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