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Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() sanity check to verify that a nested PML Full VM-Exit
is only synthesized when the original VM-Exit from L2 was an EPT Violation.
While KVM can fallthrough to kvm_mmu_do_page_fault() if an EPT Misconfig
occurs on a stale MMIO SPTE, KVM should not treat the access as a write
(there isn't enough information to know *what* the access was), i.e. KVM
should never try to insert a PML entry in that case.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209221700.393189-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Expand Up @@ -416,6 +416,16 @@ static void nested_ept_inject_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
vm_exit_reason = EXIT_REASON_PML_FULL;
vmx->nested.pml_full = false;

/*
* It should be impossible to trigger a nested PML Full VM-Exit
* for anything other than an EPT Violation from L2. KVM *can*
* trigger nEPT page fault injection in response to an EPT
* Misconfig, e.g. if the MMIO SPTE was stale and L1's EPT
* tables also changed, but KVM should not treat EPT Misconfig
* VM-Exits as writes.
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(vmx->exit_reason.basic != EXIT_REASON_EPT_VIOLATION);

/*
* PML Full and EPT Violation VM-Exits both use bit 12 to report
* "NMI unblocking due to IRET", i.e. the bit can be propagated
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