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KVM: nVMX: Unconditionally clear nested.pi_pending on nested VM-Enter
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commit f7782bb upstream.

Clear nested.pi_pending on nested VM-Enter even if L2 will run without
posted interrupts enabled.  If nested.pi_pending is left set from a
previous L2, vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt() will pick up the
stale flag and exit to userspace with an "internal emulation error" due
the new L2 not having a valid nested.pi_desc.

Arguably, vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt() should first check for
posted interrupts being enabled, but it's also completely reasonable that
KVM wouldn't screw up a fundamental flag.  Not to mention that the mere
existence of nested.pi_pending is a long-standing bug as KVM shouldn't
move the posted interrupt out of the IRR until it's actually processed,
e.g. KVM effectively drops an interrupt when it performs a nested VM-Exit
with a "pending" posted interrupt.  Fixing the mess is a future problem.

Prior to vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt() interpreting a null PI
descriptor as an error, this was a benign bug as the null PI descriptor
effectively served as a check on PI not being enabled.  Even then, the
new flow did not become problematic until KVM started checking the result
of kvm_check_nested_events().

Fixes: 705699a ("KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing")
Fixes: 966eefb ("KVM: nVMX: Disable vmcs02 posted interrupts if vmcs12 PID isn't mappable")
Fixes: 47d3530f86c0 ("KVM: x86: Exit to userspace when kvm_check_nested_events fails")
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Jim Mattson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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sean-jc authored and gregkh committed Sep 15, 2021
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7 changes: 3 additions & 4 deletions arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
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Expand Up @@ -2243,12 +2243,11 @@ static void prepare_vmcs02_early(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12)
~PIN_BASED_VMX_PREEMPTION_TIMER);

/* Posted interrupts setting is only taken from vmcs12. */
if (nested_cpu_has_posted_intr(vmcs12)) {
vmx->nested.pi_pending = false;
if (nested_cpu_has_posted_intr(vmcs12))
vmx->nested.posted_intr_nv = vmcs12->posted_intr_nv;
vmx->nested.pi_pending = false;
} else {
else
exec_control &= ~PIN_BASED_POSTED_INTR;
}
pin_controls_set(vmx, exec_control);

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