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Date:   Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:04:19 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To:     Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Dynamically compute max VMCS index for vmcs12
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2021, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 14:46 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Calculate the max VMCS index for vmcs12 by walking the array to find the
> > actual max index.  Hardcoding the index is prone to bitrot, and the
> > calculation is only done on KVM bringup (albeit on every CPU, but there
> > aren't _that_ many null entries in the array).
> > 
> > Fixes: 3c0f99366e34 ("KVM: nVMX: Add a TSC multiplier field in VMCS12")
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> 
> Could you give me an example on how this fails in the KVM unit tests?
> I have a bug report here and it might be related so I want to save some
> time triaging it.

FAIL: VMX_VMCS_ENUM.MAX_INDEX expected: 19, actual: 17

FWIW, unless a kernel/hypervisor is sanity checking VMREAD/VMWRITE or doing something
clever with the MAX_INDEX, I wouldn't expect this to cause any real world failures.