KVM: nVMX: Do not clear CR3 load/store exiting bits if L1 wants 'em
Keep CR3 load/store exiting enable as needed when running L2 in order to
honor L1's desires. This fixes a largely theoretical bug where L1 could
intercept CR3 but not CR0.PG and end up not getting the desired CR3 exits
when L2 enables paging. In other words, the existing !is_paging() check
inadvertantly handles the normal case for L2 where vmx_set_cr0() is
called during VM-Enter, which is guaranteed to run with paging enabled,
and thus will never clear the bits.
Removing the !is_paging() check will also allow future consolidation and
cleanup of the related code. From a performance perspective, this is
all a nop, as the VMCS controls shadow will optimize away the VMWRITE
when the controls are in the desired state.
Add a comment explaining why CR3 is intercepted, with a big disclaimer
about not querying the old CR3. Because vmx_set_cr0() is used for flows
that are not directly tied to MOV CR3, e.g. vCPU RESET/INIT and nested
VM-Enter, it's possible that is_paging() is not synchronized with CR3
load/store exiting. This is actually guaranteed in the current code, as
KVM starts with CR3 interception disabled. Obviously that can be fixed,
but there's no good reason to play whack-a-mole, and it tends to end
poorly, e.g. descriptor table exiting for UMIP emulation attempted to be
precise in the past and ended up botching the interception toggling.
Fixes:
fe3ef05c7572 ("KVM: nVMX: Prepare vmcs02 from vmcs01 and vmcs12")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <
20210713163324.627647-25-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>