On AMD platforms, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF. This can happen if a guest gets a page-fault on data access but the HW table walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instruction page is not present in memory).
Typically, when insn_len is zero, x86_emulate_instruction() walks the guest page table and fetches the instruction bytes from guest memory. When SEV is enabled, the guest memory is encrypted with guest-specific key hence hypervisor will not able to fetch the instruction bytes. In those cases we simply restart the guest. I have encountered this issue when running kernbench inside the guest. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrc...@redhat.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <j...@8bytes.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com> Cc: x...@kernel.org Cc: k...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index eca30c1eb1d9..2bc0fe84aca2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -4953,6 +4953,23 @@ int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u64 error_code, if (mmio_info_in_cache(vcpu, cr2, direct)) emulation_type = 0; emulate: + /* + * On AMD platforms, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF. + * This can happen if a guest gets a page-fault on data access but the HW + * table walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instruction + * page is not present in memory). + * + * Typically, when insn_len is zero, x86_emulate_instruction() walks the + * guest page table and fetches the instruction bytes from guest memory. + * When SEV is enabled, the guest memory is encrypted with guest-specific + * key hence hypervisor will not able to fetch the instruction bytes. + * In those cases we simply restart the guest. + */ + if (unlikely(!insn_len) && + kvm_x86_ops->mem_enc_enabled && + kvm_x86_ops->mem_enc_enabled(vcpu)) + return 1; + er = x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, cr2, emulation_type, insn, insn_len); switch (er) { -- 2.9.5