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x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is read-only

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On x86_64, kernel text mappings are mapped read-only with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.
In that case, KVM will fail to patch VMCALL instructions to VMMCALL
as required on AMD processors.

The failure mode is currently a divide-by-zero exception, which obviously
is a KVM bug that has to be fixed.  However, picking the right instruction
between VMCALL and VMMCALL will be faster and will help if you cannot upgrade
the hypervisor.

Reported-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Tested-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini 2014-09-22 13:17:48 +02:00
parent 81760dccf8
commit c1118b3602
3 changed files with 16 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
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@ -202,6 +202,7 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_DECODEASSISTS ( 8*32+12) /* AMD Decode Assists support */
#define X86_FEATURE_PAUSEFILTER ( 8*32+13) /* AMD filtered pause intercept */
#define X86_FEATURE_PFTHRESHOLD ( 8*32+14) /* AMD pause filter threshold */
#define X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL ( 8*32+15) /* Prefer vmmcall to vmcall */
/* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (ebx), word 9 */

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arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
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@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
#define _ASM_X86_KVM_PARA_H
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/alternative.h>
#include <uapi/asm/kvm_para.h>
extern void kvmclock_init(void);
@ -16,10 +17,15 @@ static inline bool kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused(void)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_KVM_GUEST */
/* This instruction is vmcall. On non-VT architectures, it will generate a
* trap that we will then rewrite to the appropriate instruction.
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
#define KVM_HYPERCALL \
ALTERNATIVE(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1", ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xd9", X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL)
#else
/* On AMD processors, vmcall will generate a trap that we will
* then rewrite to the appropriate instruction.
*/
#define KVM_HYPERCALL ".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xc1"
#endif
/* For KVM hypercalls, a three-byte sequence of either the vmcall or the vmmcall
* instruction. The hypervisor may replace it with something else but only the

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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
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@ -525,6 +525,13 @@ static void early_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
}
#endif
/*
* This is only needed to tell the kernel whether to use VMCALL
* and VMMCALL. VMMCALL is never executed except under virt, so
* we can set it unconditionally.
*/
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL);
/* F16h erratum 793, CVE-2013-6885 */
if (c->x86 == 0x16 && c->x86_model <= 0xf)
msr_set_bit(MSR_AMD64_LS_CFG, 15);