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authorNico Boehr <nrb@linux.ibm.com>2022-10-11 18:07:12 +0200
committerJanosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>2022-11-07 10:14:15 +0100
commit6973091d1b50ab4042f6a2d495f59e9db3662ab8 (patch)
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KVM: s390: pv: don't allow userspace to set the clock under PV
When running under PV, the guest's TOD clock is under control of the ultravisor and the hypervisor isn't allowed to change it. Hence, don't allow userspace to change the guest's TOD clock by returning -EOPNOTSUPP. When userspace changes the guest's TOD clock, KVM updates its kvm.arch.epoch field and, in addition, the epoch field in all state descriptions of all VCPUs. But, under PV, the ultravisor will ignore the epoch field in the state description and simply overwrite it on next SIE exit with the actual guest epoch. This leads to KVM having an incorrect view of the guest's TOD clock: it has updated its internal kvm.arch.epoch field, but the ultravisor ignores the field in the state description. Whenever a guest is now waiting for a clock comparator, KVM will incorrectly calculate the time when the guest should wake up, possibly causing the guest to sleep for much longer than expected. With this change, kvm_s390_set_tod() will now take the kvm->lock to be able to call kvm_s390_pv_is_protected(). Since kvm_s390_set_tod_clock() also takes kvm->lock, use __kvm_s390_set_tod_clock() instead. The function kvm_s390_set_tod_clock is now unused, hence remove it. Update the documentation to indicate the TOD clock attr calls can now return -EOPNOTSUPP. Fixes: 0f3035047140 ("KVM: s390: protvirt: Do only reset registers that are accessible") Reported-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nico Boehr <nrb@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221011160712.928239-2-nrb@linux.ibm.com Message-Id: <20221011160712.928239-2-nrb@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst
index 0aa5b1cfd700..60acc39e0e93 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ KVM_S390_VM_TOD_EXT).
:Parameters: address of a buffer in user space to store the data (u8) to
:Returns: -EFAULT if the given address is not accessible from kernel space;
-EINVAL if setting the TOD clock extension to != 0 is not supported
+ -EOPNOTSUPP for a PV guest (TOD managed by the ultravisor)
3.2. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_S390_VM_TOD_LOW
-----------------------------------
@@ -224,6 +225,7 @@ the POP (u64).
:Parameters: address of a buffer in user space to store the data (u64) to
:Returns: -EFAULT if the given address is not accessible from kernel space
+ -EOPNOTSUPP for a PV guest (TOD managed by the ultravisor)
3.3. ATTRIBUTE: KVM_S390_VM_TOD_EXT
-----------------------------------
@@ -237,6 +239,7 @@ it, it is stored as 0 and not allowed to be set to a value != 0.
(kvm_s390_vm_tod_clock) to
:Returns: -EFAULT if the given address is not accessible from kernel space;
-EINVAL if setting the TOD clock extension to != 0 is not supported
+ -EOPNOTSUPP for a PV guest (TOD managed by the ultravisor)
4. GROUP: KVM_S390_VM_CRYPTO
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