[PATCH v4 10/12] KVM: x86: never write to memory from kvm_vcpu_check_block()
Jim Mattson
jmattson at google.com
Mon Dec 11 09:52:59 AEDT 2023
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 8:21 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com> wrote:
> Doh. We got the less obvious cases and missed the obvious one.
>
> Ugh, and we also missed a related mess in kvm_guest_apic_has_interrupt(). That
> thing should really be folded into vmx_has_nested_events().
>
> Good gravy. And vmx_interrupt_blocked() does the wrong thing because that
> specifically checks if L1 interrupts are blocked.
>
> Compile tested only, and definitely needs to be chunked into multiple patches,
> but I think something like this mess?
The proposed patch does not fix the problem. In fact, it messes things
up so much that I don't get any test results back.
Google has an internal K-U-T test that demonstrates the problem. I
will post it soon.
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