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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2025-11-18 14:23:26 -0800
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2025-11-19 05:40:52 -0800
commit63669bd1d50f0b5cdb7bb390a0955b7b26821152 (patch)
tree492ce84fd7328aacbdce73f7bcd46216211aa1f0
parentebd1a336550096bf7543699bab2e89fa401deac6 (diff)
KVM: VMX: Handle #MCs on VM-Enter/TD-Enter outside of the fastpath
Handle Machine Checks (#MC) that happen on VM-Enter (VMX or TDX) outside of KVM's fastpath so that as much host state as possible is re-loaded before invoking the kernel's #MC handler. The only requirement is that KVM invokes the #MC handler before enabling IRQs (and even that could _probably_ be related to handling #MCs before enabling preemption). Waiting to handle #MCs until "more" host state is loaded hardens KVM against flaws in the #MC handler, which has historically been quite brittle. E.g. prior to commit 5567d11c21a1 ("x86/mce: Send #MC singal from task work"), the #MC code could trigger a schedule() with IRQs and preemption disabled. That led to a KVM hack-a-fix in commit 1811d979c716 ("x86/kvm: move kvm_load/put_guest_xcr0 into atomic context"). Note, vmx_handle_exit_irqoff() is common to VMX and TDX guests. Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony.lindgren@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Cc: Jon Kohler <jon@nutanix.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren <tony.lindgren@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118222328.2265758-3-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c3
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c16
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
index 163f854a39f2..6d41d2fc8043 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
@@ -1063,9 +1063,6 @@ fastpath_t tdx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 run_flags)
if (unlikely((tdx->vp_enter_ret & TDX_SW_ERROR) == TDX_SW_ERROR))
return EXIT_FASTPATH_NONE;
- if (unlikely(vmx_get_exit_reason(vcpu).basic == EXIT_REASON_MCE_DURING_VMENTRY))
- kvm_machine_check();
-
trace_kvm_exit(vcpu, KVM_ISA_VMX);
if (unlikely(tdx_failed_vmentry(vcpu)))
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 634f591d253e..788c9e81f2ba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -7074,10 +7074,19 @@ void vmx_handle_exit_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (to_vt(vcpu)->emulation_required)
return;
- if (vmx_get_exit_reason(vcpu).basic == EXIT_REASON_EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT)
+ switch (vmx_get_exit_reason(vcpu).basic) {
+ case EXIT_REASON_EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT:
handle_external_interrupt_irqoff(vcpu, vmx_get_intr_info(vcpu));
- else if (vmx_get_exit_reason(vcpu).basic == EXIT_REASON_EXCEPTION_NMI)
+ break;
+ case EXIT_REASON_EXCEPTION_NMI:
handle_exception_irqoff(vcpu, vmx_get_intr_info(vcpu));
+ break;
+ case EXIT_REASON_MCE_DURING_VMENTRY:
+ kvm_machine_check();
+ break;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
}
/*
@@ -7526,9 +7535,6 @@ fastpath_t vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 run_flags)
if (unlikely(vmx->fail))
return EXIT_FASTPATH_NONE;
- if (unlikely((u16)vmx_get_exit_reason(vcpu).basic == EXIT_REASON_MCE_DURING_VMENTRY))
- kvm_machine_check();
-
trace_kvm_exit(vcpu, KVM_ISA_VMX);
if (unlikely(vmx_get_exit_reason(vcpu).failed_vmentry))