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KVM: x86: Add KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE kvm_run flag

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When a vCPU is interrupted by a signal while running a nested guest,
KVM will exit to userspace with L2 state. However, userspace has no
way to know whether it sees L1 or L2 state (besides calling
KVM_GET_STATS_FD, which does not have a stable ABI).

This causes multiple problems:

The simplest one is L2 state corruption when userspace marks the sregs
as dirty. See this mailing list thread [1] for a complete discussion.

Another problem is that if userspace decides to continue by emulating
instructions, it will unknowingly emulate with L2 state as if L1
doesn't exist, which can be considered a weird guest escape.

Introduce a new flag, KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE, in the kvm_run data
structure, which is set when the vCPU exited while running a nested
guest.  Also introduce a new capability, KVM_CAP_X86_GUEST_MODE, to
advertise the functionality to userspace.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240416123558.212040-1-julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de/T/#m280aadcb2e10ae02c191a7dc4ed4b711a74b1f55

Signed-off-by: Thomas Prescher <thomas.prescher@cyberus-technology.de>
Signed-off-by: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508132502.184428-1-julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Thomas Prescher
2024-05-08 15:25:01 +02:00
committed by Sean Christopherson
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@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ struct kvm_ioapic_state {
#define KVM_RUN_X86_SMM (1 << 0)
#define KVM_RUN_X86_BUS_LOCK (1 << 1)
#define KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE (1 << 2)
/* for KVM_GET_REGS and KVM_SET_REGS */
struct kvm_regs {