Originally, __kvm_sync_page used to check the cr4_pae bit in the role
to avoid zapping 4-byte kvm_mmu_pages when guest page size are 8-byte
or the other way round. However, in commit
c1ba7b19a1a0 ("KVM: x86: fix
handling of role.cr4_pae and rename it to 'gpte_size'", 2019-03-28) it
was observed that this did not work for nested EPT, where the page table
size would be 8 bytes even if CR4.PAE=0. (Note that the check still
has to be done for nested *NPT*, so it is not possible to use tdp_enabled
or similar).
Therefore, a hack was introduced to identify nested EPT shadow pages
and unconditionally call __kvm_sync_page() on them. However, it is
possible to do without the hack to identify nested EPT shadow pages:
if EPT is active, there will be no shadow pages in non-EPT format,
and all of them will have gpte_is_8_bytes set to true; we can just
check the MMU role directly, and the test will always be true.
Even for non-EPT shadow MMUs, this test should really always be true
now that __kvm_sync_page() is called if and only if the role is an
exact match (kvm_mmu_get_page()) or is part of the current MMU context
(kvm_mmu_sync_roots()). A future commit will convert the likely-pointless
check into a meaningful WARN to enforce that the mmu_roles of the current
context and the shadow page are compatible.
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <
20210622175739.
3610207-11-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Contains the value of cr4.smap && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid
(pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the
treatment of cr0.wp=0 below).
- role.ept_sp:
- This is a virtual flag to denote a shadowed nested EPT page. ept_sp
- is true if "cr0_wp && smap_andnot_wp", an otherwise invalid combination.
role.smm:
Is 1 if the page is valid in system management mode. This field
determines which of the kvm_memslots array was used to build this
&(_kvm)->arch.mmu_page_hash[kvm_page_table_hashfn(_gfn)]) \
if ((_sp)->gfn != (_gfn) || (_sp)->role.direct) {} else
-static inline bool is_ept_sp(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
-{
- return sp->role.cr0_wp && sp->role.smap_andnot_wp;
-}
-
/* @sp->gfn should be write-protected at the call site */
static bool __kvm_sync_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp,
struct list_head *invalid_list)
{
- if ((!is_ept_sp(sp) && sp->role.gpte_is_8_bytes != !!is_pae(vcpu)) ||
+ union kvm_mmu_page_role mmu_role = vcpu->arch.mmu->mmu_role.base;
+
+ if (sp->role.gpte_is_8_bytes != mmu_role.gpte_is_8_bytes ||
vcpu->arch.mmu->sync_page(vcpu, sp) == 0) {
kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(vcpu->kvm, sp, invalid_list);
return false;
role.base.guest_mode = true;
role.base.access = ACC_ALL;
- /*
- * WP=1 and NOT_WP=1 is an impossible combination, use WP and the
- * SMAP variation to denote shadow EPT entries.
- */
- role.base.cr0_wp = true;
- role.base.smap_andnot_wp = true;
-
role.ext = kvm_calc_mmu_role_ext(vcpu);
role.ext.execonly = execonly;