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![]() There are cases that malicious virtual machine can cause CPU stuck (due to event windows don't open up), e.g., infinite loop in microcode when nested #AC (CVE-2015-5307). No event window means no event (NMI, SMI and IRQ) can be delivered. It leads the CPU to be unavailable to host or other VMs. Notify VM exit is introduced to mitigate such kind of attacks, which will generate a VM exit if no event window occurs in VM non-root mode for a specified amount of time (notify window). A new KVM capability KVM_CAP_X86_NOTIFY_VMEXIT is exposed to user space so that the user can query the capability and set the expected notify window when creating VMs. The format of the argument when enabling this capability is as follows: Bit 63:32 - notify window specified in qemu command Bit 31:0 - some flags (e.g. KVM_X86_NOTIFY_VMEXIT_ENABLED is set to enable the feature.) Users can configure the feature by a new (x86 only) accel property: qemu -accel kvm,notify-vmexit=run|internal-error|disable,notify-window=n The default option of notify-vmexit is run, which will enable the capability and do nothing if the exit happens. The internal-error option raises a KVM internal error if it happens. The disable option does not enable the capability. The default value of notify-window is 0. It is valid only when notify-vmexit is not disabled. The valid range of notify-window is non-negative. It is even safe to set it to zero since there's an internal hardware threshold to be added to ensure no false positive. Because a notify VM exit may happen with VM_CONTEXT_INVALID set in exit qualification (no cases are anticipated that would set this bit), which means VM context is corrupted. It would be reflected in the flags of KVM_EXIT_NOTIFY exit. If KVM_NOTIFY_CONTEXT_INVALID bit is set, raise a KVM internal error unconditionally. Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com> Message-Id: <20220929072014.20705-5-chenyi.qiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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