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Commit 6ef88d6e authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: SVM: Re-inject INT3/INTO instead of retrying the instruction



Re-inject INT3/INTO instead of retrying the instruction if the CPU
encountered an intercepted exception while vectoring the software
exception, e.g. if vectoring INT3 encounters a #PF and KVM is using
shadow paging.  Retrying the instruction is architecturally wrong, e.g.
will result in a spurious #DB if there's a code breakpoint on the INT3/O,
and lack of re-injection also breaks nested virtualization, e.g. if L1
injects a software exception and vectoring the injected exception
encounters an exception that is intercepted by L0 but not L1.

Due to, ahem, deficiencies in the SVM architecture, acquiring the next
RIP may require flowing through the emulator even if NRIPS is supported,
as the CPU clears next_rip if the VM-Exit is due to an exception other
than "exceptions caused by the INT3, INTO, and BOUND instructions".  To
deal with this, "skip" the instruction to calculate next_rip (if it's
not already known), and then unwind the RIP write and any side effects
(RFLAGS updates).

Save the computed next_rip and use it to re-stuff next_rip if injection
doesn't complete.  This allows KVM to do the right thing if next_rip was
known prior to injection, e.g. if L1 injects a soft event into L2, and
there is no backing INTn instruction, e.g. if L1 is injecting an
arbitrary event.

Note, it's impossible to guarantee architectural correctness given SVM's
architectural flaws.  E.g. if the guest executes INTn (no KVM injection),
an exit occurs while vectoring the INTn, and the guest modifies the code
stream while the exit is being handled, KVM will compute the incorrect
next_rip due to "skipping" the wrong instruction.  A future enhancement
to make this less awful would be for KVM to detect that the decoded
instruction is not the correct INTn and drop the to-be-injected soft
event (retrying is a lesser evil compared to shoving the wrong RIP on the
exception stack).

Reported-by: default avatarMaciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMaciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <65cb88deab40bc1649d509194864312a89bbe02e.1651440202.git.maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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