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[2/2] KVM: VMX: remove bogus WARN_ON in handle_ept_misconfig

Message ID 20180329214831.19160-3-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Sean Christopherson March 29, 2018, 9:48 p.m. UTC
Remove the WARN_ON in handle_ept_misconfig() as it is unnecessary
and causes false positives.  Return the unmodified result of
kvm_mmu_page_fault() instead of converting a system error code to
KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN so that userspace sees the error code of the
actual failure, not a generic "we don't know what went wrong".

  * kvm_mmu_page_fault() will WARN if reserved bits are set in the
    SPTEs, i.e. it covers the case where an EPT misconfig occurred
    because of a KVM bug.

  * The WARN_ON will fire on any system error code that is hit while
    handling the fault, e.g. -ENOMEM from mmu_topup_memory_caches()
    while handling a legitmate MMIO EPT misconfig or -EFAULT from
    kvm_handle_bad_page() if the corresponding HVA is invalid.  In
    either case, userspace should receive the original error code
    and firing a warning is incorrect behavior as KVM is operating
    as designed.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 13 +------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 9bc05f5349c8..e328aef2a2f6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -6875,7 +6875,6 @@  static int handle_ept_violation(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 static int handle_ept_misconfig(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
-	int ret;
 	gpa_t gpa;
 
 	/*
@@ -6903,17 +6902,7 @@  static int handle_ept_misconfig(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 						       NULL, 0) == EMULATE_DONE;
 	}
 
-	ret = kvm_mmu_page_fault(vcpu, gpa, PFERR_RSVD_MASK, NULL, 0);
-	if (ret >= 0)
-		return ret;
-
-	/* It is the real ept misconfig */
-	WARN_ON(1);
-
-	vcpu->run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN;
-	vcpu->run->hw.hardware_exit_reason = EXIT_REASON_EPT_MISCONFIG;
-
-	return 0;
+	return kvm_mmu_page_fault(vcpu, gpa, PFERR_RSVD_MASK, NULL, 0);
 }
 
 static int handle_nmi_window(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)