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| author | Thomas Prescher <thomas.prescher@cyberus-technology.de> | 2024-05-08 15:25:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2024-06-11 09:24:31 -0700 |
| commit | 85542adb65ecd7cc0e442e8befef74f2ed07f5f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f270cf7ff144d486bcee57272efd1e2085ab922 /arch/x86/include/uapi | |
| parent | 508f0c7bf6d55ebf988f8e59a998f6eeb2c0272b (diff) | |
KVM: x86: Add KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE kvm_run flag
When a vCPU is interrupted by a signal while running a nested guest,
KVM will exit to userspace with L2 state. However, userspace has no
way to know whether it sees L1 or L2 state (besides calling
KVM_GET_STATS_FD, which does not have a stable ABI).
This causes multiple problems:
The simplest one is L2 state corruption when userspace marks the sregs
as dirty. See this mailing list thread [1] for a complete discussion.
Another problem is that if userspace decides to continue by emulating
instructions, it will unknowingly emulate with L2 state as if L1
doesn't exist, which can be considered a weird guest escape.
Introduce a new flag, KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE, in the kvm_run data
structure, which is set when the vCPU exited while running a nested
guest. Also introduce a new capability, KVM_CAP_X86_GUEST_MODE, to
advertise the functionality to userspace.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240416123558.212040-1-julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de/T/#m280aadcb2e10ae02c191a7dc4ed4b711a74b1f55
Signed-off-by: Thomas Prescher <thomas.prescher@cyberus-technology.de>
Signed-off-by: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508132502.184428-1-julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h index 9fae1b73b529..b85671d9c8aa 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ struct kvm_ioapic_state { #define KVM_RUN_X86_SMM (1 << 0) #define KVM_RUN_X86_BUS_LOCK (1 << 1) +#define KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE (1 << 2) /* for KVM_GET_REGS and KVM_SET_REGS */ struct kvm_regs { |