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Don't allow posted interrupts to modify a stale posted interrupt
descriptor (including the initial value of 0).
Empirical tests on real hardware reveal that a posted interrupt
descriptor referencing an unbacked address has PCI bus error semantics
(reads as all 1's; writes are ignored). However, kvm can't distinguish
unbacked addresses from device-backed (MMIO) addresses, so it should
really ask userspace for an MMIO completion. That's overly
complicated, so just punt with KVM_INTERNAL_ERROR.
Don't return the error until the posted interrupt descriptor is
actually accessed. We don't want to break the existing kvm-unit-tests
that assume they can launch an L2 VM with a posted interrupt
descriptor that references MMIO space in L1.
Fixes: 6beb7bd52e ("kvm: nVMX: Refactor nested_get_vmcs12_pages()")
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210604172611.281819-8-jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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