KVM: VMX: Always VMCLEAR in-use VMCSes during crash with kexec support
VMCLEAR all in-use VMCSes during a crash, even if kdump's NMI shootdown interrupted a KVM update of the percpu in-use VMCS list. Because NMIs are not blocked by disabling IRQs, it's possible that crash_vmclear_local_loaded_vmcss() could be called while the percpu list of VMCSes is being modified, e.g. in the middle of list_add() in vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(). This potential corner case was called out in the original commit[*], but the analysis of its impact was wrong. Skipping the VMCLEARs is wrong because it all but guarantees that a loaded, and therefore cached, VMCS will live across kexec and corrupt memory in the new kernel. Corruption will occur because the CPU's VMCS cache is non-coherent, i.e. not snooped, and so the writeback of VMCS memory on its eviction will overwrite random memory in the new kernel. The VMCS will live because the NMI shootdown also disables VMX, i.e. the in-progress VMCLEAR will #UD, and existing Intel CPUs do not flush the VMCS cache on VMXOFF. Furthermore, interrupting list_add() and list_del() is safe due to crash_vmclear_local_loaded_vmcss() using forward iteration. list_add() ensures the new entry is not visible to forward iteration unless the entire add completes, via WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, new). A bad "prev" pointer could be observed if the NMI shootdown interrupted list_del() or list_add(), but list_for_each_entry() does not consume ->prev. In addition to removing the temporary disabling of VMCLEAR, open code loaded_vmcs_init() in __loaded_vmcs_clear() and reorder VMCLEAR so that the VMCS is deleted from the list only after it's been VMCLEAR'd. Deleting the VMCS before VMCLEAR would allow a race where the NMI shootdown could arrive between list_del() and vmcs_clear() and thus neither flow would execute a successful VMCLEAR. Alternatively, more code could be moved into loaded_vmcs_init(), but that gets rather silly as the only other user, alloc_loaded_vmcs(), doesn't need the smp_wmb() and would need to work around the list_del(). Update the smp_*() comments related to the list manipulation, and opportunistically reword them to improve clarity. [*] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1675731/#3720461 Fixes: 8f536b76 ("KVM: VMX: provide the vmclear function and a bitmap to support VMCLEAR in kdump") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Message-Id: <20200321193751.24985-2-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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