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File 53ff36ae-x86-hvm-treat-non-insn-fetch-NPF-also-as-read-violations.patch of Package xen.4507

References: bnc#882089

# Commit 401d5c5cc5a780cad160aa0e3c282c11ac11dd0c
# Date 2014-08-28 16:03:26 +0200
# Author Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@zentific.com>
# Committer Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
x86/hvm: treat non-instruction fetch nested page faults also as read violations

As pointed out by Jan Beulich in
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-08/msg01269.html:
"Read-modify-write instructions absolutely need to be treated as read
accesses, yet hardware doesn't guarantee to tell us so (they may
surface as just write accesses)." This patch addresses the issue in
both the VMX and the SVM side.

VMX: Treat all write data access violations also as read violations (in
     addition to those that were already reported as read violations).
SVM: Refine the meaning of read data access violations to distinguish
     between read/write and instruction fetch access violations.

With this patch both VMX and SVM specific nested page fault handling code reports violations the same way, thus abstracting the hardware specific behaviour from the layers above.

Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@zentific.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>

Index: xen-4.4.4-testing/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
===================================================================
--- xen-4.4.4-testing.orig/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
+++ xen-4.4.4-testing/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -1308,8 +1308,13 @@ static void svm_do_nested_pgfault(struct
     p2m_access_t p2ma;
     struct p2m_domain *p2m = NULL;
 
+    /*
+     * Since HW doesn't explicitly provide a read access bit and we need to
+     * somehow describe read-modify-write instructions we will conservatively
+     * set read_access for all memory accesses that are not instruction fetches.
+     */
     struct npfec npfec = {
-        .read_access = 1, /* All NPFs count as reads */
+        .read_access = !(pfec & PFEC_insn_fetch),
         .write_access = !!(pfec & PFEC_write_access),
         .insn_fetch = !!(pfec & PFEC_insn_fetch)
     };
Index: xen-4.4.4-testing/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
===================================================================
--- xen-4.4.4-testing.orig/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ xen-4.4.4-testing/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -2311,8 +2311,21 @@ static void ept_handle_violation(unsigne
     p2m_type_t p2mt;
     int ret;
     struct domain *d = current->domain;
+
+    /*
+     * We treat all write violations also as read violations.
+     * The reason why this is required is the following warning:
+     * "An EPT violation that occurs during as a result of execution of a
+     * read-modify-write operation sets bit 1 (data write). Whether it also
+     * sets bit 0 (data read) is implementation-specific and, for a given
+     * implementation, may differ for different kinds of read-modify-write
+     * operations."
+     * - Intel(R) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
+     *   Volume 3C: System Programming Guide, Part 3
+     */
     struct npfec npfec = {
-        .read_access = !!(qualification & EPT_READ_VIOLATION),
+        .read_access = !!(qualification & EPT_READ_VIOLATION) ||
+                       !!(qualification & EPT_WRITE_VIOLATION),
         .write_access = !!(qualification & EPT_WRITE_VIOLATION),
         .insn_fetch = !!(qualification & EPT_EXEC_VIOLATION)
     };

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