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<title>KVM: guest_memfd: let kvm_gmem_populate() operate only on private gfns</title>
<updated>2024-07-26T18:46:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-07-11T22:27:55+00:00</published>
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This check is currently performed by sev_gmem_post_populate(), but it
applies to all callers of kvm_gmem_populate(): the point of the function
is that the memory is being encrypted and some work has to be done
on all the gfns in order to encrypt them.

Therefore, check the KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE attribute prior
to invoking the callback, and stop the operation if a shared page
is encountered.  Because CONFIG_KVM_PRIVATE_MEM in principle does
not require attributes, this makes kvm_gmem_populate() depend on
CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_PRIVATE_MEM (which does require them).

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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This check is currently performed by sev_gmem_post_populate(), but it
applies to all callers of kvm_gmem_populate(): the point of the function
is that the memory is being encrypted and some work has to be done
on all the gfns in order to encrypt them.

Therefore, check the KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE attribute prior
to invoking the callback, and stop the operation if a shared page
is encountered.  Because CONFIG_KVM_PRIVATE_MEM in principle does
not require attributes, this makes kvm_gmem_populate() depend on
CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_PRIVATE_MEM (which does require them).

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: extend kvm_range_has_memory_attributes() to check subset of attributes</title>
<updated>2024-07-26T18:46:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-11T22:27:54+00:00</published>
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While currently there is no other attribute than KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE,
KVM code such as kvm_mem_is_private() is written to expect their existence.
Allow using kvm_range_has_memory_attributes() as a multi-page version of
kvm_mem_is_private(), without it breaking later when more attributes are
introduced.

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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While currently there is no other attribute than KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE,
KVM code such as kvm_mem_is_private() is written to expect their existence.
Allow using kvm_range_has_memory_attributes() as a multi-page version of
kvm_mem_is_private(), without it breaking later when more attributes are
introduced.

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>KVM: remove kvm_arch_gmem_prepare_needed()</title>
<updated>2024-07-26T18:46:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-11T22:27:51+00:00</published>
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It is enough to return 0 if a guest need not do any preparation.
This is in fact how sev_gmem_prepare() works for non-SNP guests,
and it extends naturally to Intel hosts: the x86 callback for
gmem_prepare is optional and returns 0 if not defined.

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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It is enough to return 0 if a guest need not do any preparation.
This is in fact how sev_gmem_prepare() works for non-SNP guests,
and it extends naturally to Intel hosts: the x86 callback for
gmem_prepare is optional and returns 0 if not defined.

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: rename CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_GMEM_* to CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_GMEM_*</title>
<updated>2024-07-26T18:46:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-11T22:27:47+00:00</published>
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Add "ARCH" to the symbols; shortly, the "prepare" phase will include both
the arch-independent step to clear out contents left in the page by the
host, and the arch-dependent step enabled by CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_GMEM_PREPARE.
For consistency do the same for CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_GMEM_INVALIDATE as well.

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Add "ARCH" to the symbols; shortly, the "prepare" phase will include both
the arch-independent step to clear out contents left in the page by the
host, and the arch-dependent step enabled by CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_GMEM_PREPARE.
For consistency do the same for CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_GMEM_INVALIDATE as well.

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-generic-6.11' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T13:51:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-16T13:51:36+00:00</published>
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KVM generic changes for 6.11

 - Enable halt poll shrinking by default, as Intel found it to be a clear win.

 - Setup empty IRQ routing when creating a VM to avoid having to synchronize
   SRCU when creating a split IRQCHIP on x86.

 - Rework the sched_in/out() paths to replace kvm_arch_sched_in() with a flag
   that arch code can use for hooking both sched_in() and sched_out().

 - Take the vCPU @id as an "unsigned long" instead of "u32" to avoid
   truncating a bogus value from userspace, e.g. to help userspace detect bugs.

 - Mark a vCPU as preempted if and only if it's scheduled out while in the
   KVM_RUN loop, e.g. to avoid marking it preempted and thus writing guest
   memory when retrieving guest state during live migration blackout.

 - A few minor cleanups
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KVM generic changes for 6.11

 - Enable halt poll shrinking by default, as Intel found it to be a clear win.

 - Setup empty IRQ routing when creating a VM to avoid having to synchronize
   SRCU when creating a split IRQCHIP on x86.

 - Rework the sched_in/out() paths to replace kvm_arch_sched_in() with a flag
   that arch code can use for hooking both sched_in() and sched_out().

 - Take the vCPU @id as an "unsigned long" instead of "u32" to avoid
   truncating a bogus value from userspace, e.g. to help userspace detect bugs.

 - Mark a vCPU as preempted if and only if it's scheduled out while in the
   KVM_RUN loop, e.g. to avoid marking it preempted and thus writing guest
   memory when retrieving guest state during live migration blackout.

 - A few minor cleanups
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<entry>
<title>KVM: Add KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY vcpu ioctl to pre-populate guest memory</title>
<updated>2024-07-12T15:17:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Isaku Yamahata</name>
<email>isaku.yamahata@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-10T22:07:28+00:00</published>
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Add a new ioctl KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY in the KVM common code. It iterates on the
memory range and calls the arch-specific function.  The implementation is
optional and enabled by a Kconfig symbol.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata &lt;isaku.yamahata@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe &lt;rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;819322b8f25971f2b9933bfa4506e618508ad782.1712785629.git.isaku.yamahata@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Add a new ioctl KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY in the KVM common code. It iterates on the
memory range and calls the arch-specific function.  The implementation is
optional and enabled by a Kconfig symbol.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata &lt;isaku.yamahata@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe &lt;rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;819322b8f25971f2b9933bfa4506e618508ad782.1712785629.git.isaku.yamahata@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: Introduce vcpu-&gt;wants_to_run</title>
<updated>2024-06-18T16:20:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Matlack</name>
<email>dmatlack@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-03T18:17:32+00:00</published>
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Introduce vcpu-&gt;wants_to_run to indicate when a vCPU is in its core run
loop, i.e. when the vCPU is running the KVM_RUN ioctl and immediate_exit
was not set.

Replace all references to vcpu-&gt;run-&gt;immediate_exit with
!vcpu-&gt;wants_to_run to avoid TOCTOU races with userspace. For example, a
malicious userspace could invoked KVM_RUN with immediate_exit=true and
then after KVM reads it to set wants_to_run=false, flip it to false.
This would result in the vCPU running in KVM_RUN with
wants_to_run=false. This wouldn't cause any real bugs today but is a
dangerous landmine.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503181734.1467938-2-dmatlack@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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Introduce vcpu-&gt;wants_to_run to indicate when a vCPU is in its core run
loop, i.e. when the vCPU is running the KVM_RUN ioctl and immediate_exit
was not set.

Replace all references to vcpu-&gt;run-&gt;immediate_exit with
!vcpu-&gt;wants_to_run to avoid TOCTOU races with userspace. For example, a
malicious userspace could invoked KVM_RUN with immediate_exit=true and
then after KVM reads it to set wants_to_run=false, flip it to false.
This would result in the vCPU running in KVM_RUN with
wants_to_run=false. This wouldn't cause any real bugs today but is a
dangerous landmine.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503181734.1467938-2-dmatlack@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: Delete the now unused kvm_arch_sched_in()</title>
<updated>2024-06-11T21:18:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-22T01:40:11+00:00</published>
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Delete kvm_arch_sched_in() now that all implementations are nops.

Reviewed-by: Bibo Mao &lt;maobibo@loongson.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Kai Huang &lt;kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522014013.1672962-5-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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Delete kvm_arch_sched_in() now that all implementations are nops.

Reviewed-by: Bibo Mao &lt;maobibo@loongson.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Kai Huang &lt;kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522014013.1672962-5-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: Add a flag to track if a loaded vCPU is scheduled out</title>
<updated>2024-06-11T21:18:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-22T01:40:08+00:00</published>
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Add a kvm_vcpu.scheduled_out flag to track if a vCPU is in the process of
being scheduled out (vCPU put path), or if the vCPU is being reloaded
after being scheduled out (vCPU load path).  In the short term, this will
allow dropping kvm_arch_sched_in(), as arch code can query scheduled_out
during kvm_arch_vcpu_load().

Longer term, scheduled_out opens up other potential optimizations, without
creating subtle/brittle dependencies.  E.g. it allows KVM to keep guest
state (that is managed via kvm_arch_vcpu_{load,put}()) loaded across
kvm_sched_{out,in}(), if KVM knows the state isn't accessed by the host
kernel.  Forcing arch code to coordinate between kvm_arch_sched_{in,out}()
and kvm_arch_vcpu_{load,put}() is awkward, not reusable, and relies on the
exact ordering of calls into arch code.

Adding scheduled_out also obviates the need for a kvm_arch_sched_out()
hook, e.g. if arch code needs to do something novel when putting vCPU
state.

And even if KVM never uses scheduled_out for anything beyond dropping
kvm_arch_sched_in(), just being able to remove all of the arch stubs makes
it worth adding the flag.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240430224431.490139-1-seanjc@google.com
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Kai Huang &lt;kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522014013.1672962-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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Add a kvm_vcpu.scheduled_out flag to track if a vCPU is in the process of
being scheduled out (vCPU put path), or if the vCPU is being reloaded
after being scheduled out (vCPU load path).  In the short term, this will
allow dropping kvm_arch_sched_in(), as arch code can query scheduled_out
during kvm_arch_vcpu_load().

Longer term, scheduled_out opens up other potential optimizations, without
creating subtle/brittle dependencies.  E.g. it allows KVM to keep guest
state (that is managed via kvm_arch_vcpu_{load,put}()) loaded across
kvm_sched_{out,in}(), if KVM knows the state isn't accessed by the host
kernel.  Forcing arch code to coordinate between kvm_arch_sched_{in,out}()
and kvm_arch_vcpu_{load,put}() is awkward, not reusable, and relies on the
exact ordering of calls into arch code.

Adding scheduled_out also obviates the need for a kvm_arch_sched_out()
hook, e.g. if arch code needs to do something novel when putting vCPU
state.

And even if KVM never uses scheduled_out for anything beyond dropping
kvm_arch_sched_in(), just being able to remove all of the arch stubs makes
it worth adding the flag.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240430224431.490139-1-seanjc@google.com
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Kai Huang &lt;kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522014013.1672962-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: Setup empty IRQ routing when creating a VM</title>
<updated>2024-06-11T21:18:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yi Wang</name>
<email>foxywang@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-06T10:17:49+00:00</published>
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Setup empty IRQ routing during VM creation so that x86 and s390 don't need
to set empty/dummy IRQ routing during KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP (in future
patches).  Initializing IRQ routing before there are any potential readers
allows KVM to avoid the synchronize_srcu() in kvm_set_irq_routing(), which
can introduces 20+ milliseconds of latency in the VM creation path.

Ensuring that all VMs have non-NULL IRQ routing also hardens KVM against
misbehaving userspace VMMs, e.g. RISC-V dynamically instantiates its
interrupt controller, but doesn't override kvm_arch_intc_initialized() or
kvm_arch_irqfd_allowed(), and so can likely reach kvm_irq_map_gsi()
without fully initialized IRQ routing.

Signed-off-by: Yi Wang &lt;foxywang@tencent.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506101751.3145407-2-foxywang@tencent.com
[sean: init refcount after IRQ routing, fix stub, massage changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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Setup empty IRQ routing during VM creation so that x86 and s390 don't need
to set empty/dummy IRQ routing during KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP (in future
patches).  Initializing IRQ routing before there are any potential readers
allows KVM to avoid the synchronize_srcu() in kvm_set_irq_routing(), which
can introduces 20+ milliseconds of latency in the VM creation path.

Ensuring that all VMs have non-NULL IRQ routing also hardens KVM against
misbehaving userspace VMMs, e.g. RISC-V dynamically instantiates its
interrupt controller, but doesn't override kvm_arch_intc_initialized() or
kvm_arch_irqfd_allowed(), and so can likely reach kvm_irq_map_gsi()
without fully initialized IRQ routing.

Signed-off-by: Yi Wang &lt;foxywang@tencent.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506101751.3145407-2-foxywang@tencent.com
[sean: init refcount after IRQ routing, fix stub, massage changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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