KVM: x86: fix handling of role.cr4_pae and rename it to 'gpte_size'

The cr4_pae flag is a bit of a misnomer, its purpose is really to track
whether the guest PTE that is being shadowed is a 4-byte entry or an
8-byte entry.  Prior to supporting nested EPT, the size of the gpte was
reflected purely by CR4.PAE.  KVM fudged things a bit for direct sptes,
but it was mostly harmless since the size of the gpte never mattered.
Now that a spte may be tracking an indirect EPT entry, relying on
CR4.PAE is wrong and ill-named.

For direct shadow pages, force the gpte_size to '1' as they are always
8-byte entries; EPT entries can only be 8-bytes and KVM always uses
8-byte entries for NPT and its identity map (when running with EPT but
not unrestricted guest).

Likewise, nested EPT entries are always 8-bytes.  Nested EPT presents a
unique scenario as the size of the entries are not dictated by CR4.PAE,
but neither is the shadow page a direct map.  To handle this scenario,
set cr0_wp=1 and smap_andnot_wp=1, an otherwise impossible combination,
to denote a nested EPT shadow page.  Use the information to avoid
incorrectly zapping an unsync'd indirect page in __kvm_sync_page().

Providing a consistent and accurate gpte_size fixes a bug reported by
Vitaly where fast_cr3_switch() always fails when switching from L2 to
L1 as kvm_mmu_get_page() would force role.cr4_pae=0 for direct pages,
whereas kvm_calc_mmu_role_common() would set it according to CR4.PAE.

Fixes: 7dcd575520 ("x86/kvm/mmu: check if tdp/shadow MMU reconfiguration is needed")
Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson 2019-03-07 15:27:44 -08:00 • committed by Paolo Bonzini
commit 47c42e6b41
4 changed files with 35 additions and 22 deletions

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@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
If clear, this page corresponds to a guest page table denoted by the gfn
field.
role.quadrant:
When role.cr4_pae=0, the guest uses 32-bit gptes while the host uses 64-bit
When role.gpte_is_8_bytes=0, the guest uses 32-bit gptes while the host uses 64-bit
sptes. That means a guest page table contains more ptes than the host,
so multiple shadow pages are needed to shadow one guest page.
For first-level shadow pages, role.quadrant can be 0 or 1 and denotes the
@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
The page is invalid and should not be used. It is a root page that is
currently pinned (by a cpu hardware register pointing to it); once it is
unpinned it will be destroyed.
role.cr4_pae:
Contains the value of cr4.pae for which the page is valid (e.g. whether
32-bit or 64-bit gptes are in use).
role.gpte_is_8_bytes:
Reflects the size of the guest PTE for which the page is valid, i.e. '1'
if 64-bit gptes are in use, '0' if 32-bit gptes are in use.
role.nxe:
Contains the value of efer.nxe for which the page is valid.
role.cr0_wp:
@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
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