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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/33] KVM: SVM: Flush the "current" TLB when
 activating AVIC
From:   Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc:     kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>,
        Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>,
        Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>,
        Greg Edwards <gedwards@ddn.com>
Date:   Sun, 08 Jan 2023 16:25:00 +0200
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On Fri, 2023-01-06 at 01:12 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Flush the TLB when activating AVIC as the CPU can insert into the TLB
> while AVIC is "locally" disabled.  KVM doesn't treat "APIC hardware
> disabled" as VM-wide AVIC inhibition, and so when a vCPU has its APIC
> hardware disabled, AVIC is not guaranteed to be inhibited.  As a result,
> KVM may create a valid NPT mapping for the APIC base, which the CPU can
> cache as a non-AVIC translation.
> 
> Note, Intel handles this in vmx_set_virtual_apic_mode().
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
> index 6919dee69f18..712330b80891 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
> @@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ static void avic_activate_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>  		/* Disabling MSR intercept for x2APIC registers */
>  		svm_set_x2apic_msr_interception(svm, false);
>  	} else {
> +		/*
> +		 * Flush the TLB, the guest may have inserted a non-APIC
> +		 * mapping into the TLB while AVIC was disabled.
> +		 */
> +		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH_CURRENT, &svm->vcpu);
> +
>  		/* For xAVIC and hybrid-xAVIC modes */
>  		vmcb->control.avic_physical_id |= AVIC_MAX_PHYSICAL_ID;
>  		/* Enabling MSR intercept for x2APIC registers */


Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky