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Sean Christopherson committed 2c151b25441
Revert "KVM: X86: Fix SMRAM accessing even if VM is shutdown"
The bug that led to commit 95e057e25892eaa48cad1e2d637b80d0f1a4fac5
was a benign warning (no adverse affects other than the warning
itself) that was detected by syzkaller. Further inspection shows
that the WARN_ON in question, in handle_ept_misconfig(), is
unnecessary and flawed (this was also briefly discussed in the
original patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10204649).
* The WARN_ON is unnecessary as kvm_mmu_page_fault() will WARN
if reserved bits are set in the SPTEs, i.e. it covers the case
where an EPT misconfig occurred because of a KVM bug.
* The WARN_ON is flawed because it will fire on any system error
code that is hit while handling the fault, e.g. -ENOMEM can be
returned by mmu_topup_memory_caches() while handling a legitmate
MMIO EPT misconfig.
The original behavior of returning -EFAULT when userspace munmaps
an HVA without first removing the memslot is correct and desirable,
i.e. KVM is letting userspace know it has generated a bad address.
Returning RET_PF_EMULATE masks the WARN_ON in the EPT misconfig path,
but does not fix the underlying bug, i.e. the WARN_ON is bogus.
Furthermore, returning RET_PF_EMULATE has the unwanted side effect of
causing KVM to attempt to emulate an instruction on any page fault
with an invalid HVA translation, e.g. a not-present EPT violation
on a VM_PFNMAP VMA whose fault handler failed to insert a PFN.
* There is no guarantee that the fault is directly related to the
instruction, i.e. the fault could have been triggered by a side
effect memory access in the guest, e.g. while vectoring a #DB or
writing a tracing record. This could cause KVM to effectively
mask the fault if KVM doesn't model the behavior leading to the
fault, i.e. emulation could succeed and resume the guest.
* If emulation does fail, KVM will return EMULATION_FAILED instead
of -EFAULT, which is a red herring as the user will either debug
a bogus emulation attempt or scratch their head wondering why we
were attempting emulation in the first place.
TL;DR: revert to returning -EFAULT and remove the bogus WARN_ON in
handle_ept_misconfig in a future patch.
This reverts commit 95e057e25892eaa48cad1e2d637b80d0f1a4fac5.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>