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309636 06-Dec-2016 glebius

Fix possible login(1) argument injection in telnetd(8). [SA-16:36]
Fix link_ntoa(3) buffer overflow in libc. [SA-16:37]
Fix possible escape from bhyve(8) virtual machine. [SA-16:38]
Fix warnings about valid time zone abbreviations. [EN-16:19]
Update timezone database information. [EN-16:20]

Security: FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd
Security: FreeBSD-SA-16:37.libc
Security: FreeBSD-SA-16:38.bhyve
Errata Notice: FreeBSD-EN-16:19.tzcode
Errata Notice: FreeBSD-EN-16:20.tzdata
Approved by: so

272461 03-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


270159 19-Aug-2014 grehan

MFC r267921, r267934, r267949, r267959, r267966, r268202, r268276,
r268427, r268428, r268521, r268638, r268639, r268701, r268777,
r268889, r268922, r269008, r269042, r269043, r269080, r269094,
r269108, r269109, r269281, r269317, r269700, r269896, r269962,
r269989.

Catch bhyve up to CURRENT.

Lightly tested with FreeBSD i386/amd64, Linux i386/amd64, and
OpenBSD/amd64. Still resolving an issue with OpenBSD/i386.

Many thanks to jhb@ for all the hard work on the prior MFCs !

r267921 - support the "mov r/m8, imm8" instruction
r267934 - document options
r267949 - set DMI vers/date to fixed values
r267959 - doc: sort cmd flags
r267966 - EPT misconf post-mortem info
r268202 - use correct flag for event index
r268276 - 64-bit virtio capability api
r268427 - invalidate guest TLB when cr3 is updated, needed for TSS
r268428 - identify vcpu's operating mode
r268521 - use correct offset in guest logical-to-linear translation
r268638 - chs value
r268639 - chs fake values
r268701 - instr emul operand/address size override prefix support
r268777 - emulation for legacy x86 task switching
r268889 - nested exception support
r268922 - fix INVARIANTS build
r269008 - emulate instructions found in the OpenBSD/i386 5.5 kernel
r269042 - fix fault injection
r269043 - Reduce VMEXIT_RESTARTs in task_switch.c
r269080 - fix issues in PUSH emulation
r269094 - simplify return values from the inout handlers
r269108 - don't return -1 from the push emulation handler
r269109 - avoid permanent sleep in vm_handle_hlt()
r269281 - list VT-x features in base kernel dmesg
r269317 - Mark AHCI fatal errors as not completed
r269700 - Support PCI extended config space in bhyve
r269896 - Minor cleanup
r269962 - use max guest memory when creating IOMMU domain
r269989 - fix interrupt mode names


270074 17-Aug-2014 grehan

MFC r267311, r267330, r267811, r267884

Turn on interrupt window exiting unconditionally when an ExtINT is being
injected into the guest.

Add helper functions to populate VM exit information for rendezvous and
astpending exits.

Provide APIs to directly get 'lowmem' and 'highmem' size directly.

Expose the amount of resident and wired memory from the guest's vmspace


270071 17-Aug-2014 grehan

MFC r267216
Add ioctl(VM_REINIT) to reinitialize the virtual machine state maintained
by vmm.ko. This allows the virtual machine to be restarted without having
to destroy it first.


270070 17-Aug-2014 grehan

MFC r266933
Activate vcpus from bhyve(8) using the ioctl VM_ACTIVATE_CPU instead of doing
it implicitly in vmm.ko.


268976 22-Jul-2014 jhb

MFC 266424,266476,266524,266573,266595,266626,266627,266633,266641,266642,
266708,266724,266934,266935,268521:
Emulation of the "ins" and "outs" instructions.

Various fixes for translating guest linear addresses to guest physical
addresses.


268972 22-Jul-2014 jhb

MFC 266125:
Implement a PCI interrupt router to route PCI legacy INTx interrupts to
the legacy 8259A PICs.


268953 21-Jul-2014 jhb

MFC 264353,264509,264768,264770,264825,264846,264988,265114,265165,265365,
265941,265951,266390,266550,266910:
Various bhyve fixes:
- Don't save host's return address in 'struct vmxctx'.
- Permit non-32-bit accesses to local APIC registers.
- Factor out common ioport handler code.
- Use calloc() in favor of malloc + memset.
- Change the vlapic timer frequency to be in the ballpark of contemporary
hardware.
- Allow the guest to read the TSC via MSR 0x10.
- A VMCS is always inactive when it exits the vmx_run() loop. Remove
redundant code and the misleading comment that suggest otherwise.
- Ignore writes to microcode update MSR. This MSR is accessed by RHEL7
guest.
Add KTR tracepoints to annotate wrmsr and rdmsr VM exits.
- Provide an alias for the userboot console and name it 'comconsole'.
- Use EV_ADD to create an mevent and EV_ENABLE to enable it.
- abort(3) the process in response to a VMEXIT_ABORT.
- Don't include the guest memory segments in the bhyve(8) process core dump.
- Make the vmx asm code dtrace-fbt-friendly.
- Allow vmx_getdesc() and vmx_setdesc() to be called for a vcpu that is in
the VCPU_RUNNING state.
- Enable VMX in the IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL MSR if it not enabled and the MSR
isn't locked.


268935 21-Jul-2014 jhb

MFC 263780,264516,265062,265101,265203,265364:
Add an ioctl to suspend a virtual machine (VM_SUSPEND).

Add logic in the HLT exit handler to detect if the guest has put all vcpus
to sleep permanently by executing a HLT with interrupts disabled.

When this condition is detected the guest with be suspended with a reason of
VM_SUSPEND_HALT and the bhyve(8) process will exit.

This logic can be disabled via the tunable 'hw.vmm.halt_detection'.


268891 19-Jul-2014 jhb

MFC 259942,262274,263035,263054,263211,263744,264179,264324,264468,264631,
264648,264650,264651,266572,267558:
Flesh out the AT PIC and 8254 PIT emulations and move them into the kernel.


267427 12-Jun-2014 jhb

MFC 261638,262144,262506,266765:
Add virtualized XSAVE support to bhyve which permits guests to use XSAVE and
XSAVE-enabled features like AVX.
- Store a per-cpu guest xcr0 register and handle xsetbv VM exits by emulating
the instruction.
- Only expose XSAVE to guests if XSAVE is enabled in the host. Only expose
a subset of XSAVE features currently supported by the guest and for which
the proper emulation of xsetbv is known. Currently this includes X87, SSE,
AVX, AVX-512, and Intel MPX.
- Add support for injecting hardware exceptions into the guest and use this
to trigger exceptions in the guest for invalid xsetbv operations instead
of potentially faulting in the host.
- Queue pending exceptions in the 'struct vcpu' instead of directly updating
the processor-specific VMCS or VMCB. The pending exception will be delivered
right before entering the guest.
- Rename the unused ioctl VM_INJECT_EVENT to VM_INJECT_EXCEPTION and restrict
it to only deliver x86 hardware exceptions. This new ioctl is now used to
inject a protection fault when the guest accesses an unimplemented MSR.
- Expose a subset of known-safe features from leaf 0 of the structured
extended features to guests if they are supported on the host including
RDFSBASE/RDGSBASE, BMI1/2, AVX2, AVX-512, HLE, ERMS, and RTM. Aside
from AVX-512, these features are all new instructions available for use
in ring 3 with no additional hypervisor changes needed.


267399 12-Jun-2014 jhb

MFC 261504:
Add support for FreeBSD/i386 guests under bhyve.


267393 12-Jun-2014 jhb

MFC 260239,261268,265058:
Expand the support for PCI INTx interrupts including providing interrupt
routing information for INTx interrupts to I/O APIC pins and enabling
INTx interrupts in the virtio and AHCI backends.


262350 23-Feb-2014 jhb

MFC 258859,259081,259085,259205,259213,259275,259482,259537,259702,259779:
Several changes to the local APIC support in bhyve:
- Rename 'vm_interrupt_hostcpu()' to 'vcpu_notify_event()'.
- If a vcpu disables its local apic and then executes a 'HLT' then spin
down the vcpu and destroy its thread context. Also modify the 'HLT'
processing to ignore pending interrupts in the IRR if interrupts have
been disabled by the guest. The interrupt cannot be injected into the
guest in any case so resuming it is futile.
- Use callout(9) to drive the vlapic timer instead of clocking it on each
VM exit.
- When the guest is bringing up the APs in the x2APIC mode a write to the
ICR register will now trigger a return to userspace with an exitcode of
VM_EXITCODE_SPINUP_AP.
- Change the vlapic timer lock to be a spinlock because the vlapic can be
accessed from within a critical section (vm run loop) when guest is using
x2apic mode.
- Fix the vlapic version register.
- Add a command to bhyvectl to inject an NMI on a specific vcpu.
- Add an API to deliver message signalled interrupts to vcpus. This allows
callers to treat the MSI 'addr' and 'data' fields as opaque and also lets
bhyve implement multiple destination modes: physical, flat and clustered.
- Rename the ambiguously named 'vm_setup_msi()' and 'vm_setup_msix()' to
'vm_setup_pptdev_msi()' and 'vm_setup_pptdev_msix()' respectively.
- Consolidate the virtual apic initialization in a single function:
vlapic_reset()
- Add a generic routine to trigger an LVT interrupt that supports both
fixed and NMI delivery modes.
- Add an ioctl and bhyvectl command to trigger local interrupts inside a
guest. In particular, a global NMI similar to that raised by SERR# or
PERR# can be simulated by asserting LINT1 on all vCPUs.
- Extend the LVT table in the vCPU local APIC to support CMCI.
- Flesh out the local APIC error reporting a bit to cache errors and
report them via ESR when ESR is written to. Add support for asserting
the error LVT when an error occurs. Raise illegal vector errors when
attempting to signal an invalid vector for an interrupt or when sending
an IPI.
- Export table entries in the MADT and MP Table advertising the stock x86
config of LINT0 set to ExtInt and LINT1 wired to NMI.


261088 23-Jan-2014 jhb

MFC 257422,257661,258075,258476,258494,258579,258609,258699:
Several enhancements to the I/O APIC support in bhyve including:
- Move the I/O APIC device model from userspace into vmm.ko and add
ioctls to assert and deassert I/O APIC pins.
- Add HPET device emulation including a single timer block with 8 timers.
- Remove the 'vdev' abstraction.

Approved by: neel


259073 07-Dec-2013 peter

Hoist all the mergeinfo up to the root in preparation for enforcing merges
to the root only. All MFC's were rerecorded to the root.

Going forward, if an MFC includes mergeinfo, it will need to be made to
the root and committed from the root. Merges with --ignore-ancestry
or diff | patch can go anywhere.

The mergeinfo in HEAD is in a bad state from years of neglect and manual
tampering and this was branched into 10.x. This confuses the coalescing
code and prevents it from doing its job.

Approved by: re (gjb, implicit)


256869 22-Oct-2013 neel

MFC r256645.

Add a new capability, VM_CAP_ENABLE_INVPCID, that can be enabled to expose
'invpcid' instruction to the guest. Currently bhyve will try to enable this
capability unconditionally if it is available.

Consolidate code in bhyve to set the capabilities so it is no longer
duplicated in BSP and AP bringup.

Add a sysctl 'vm.pmap.invpcid_works' to display whether the 'invpcid'
instruction is available.

Approved by: re (hrs)


256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


256176 09-Oct-2013 neel

Parse the memory size parameter using expand_number() to allow specifying
the memory size more intuitively (e.g. 512M, 4G etc).

Submitted by: rodrigc
Reviewed by: grehan
Approved by: re (blanket)


256072 05-Oct-2013 neel

Merge projects/bhyve_npt_pmap into head.

Make the amd64/pmap code aware of nested page table mappings used by bhyve
guests. This allows bhyve to associate each guest with its own vmspace and
deal with nested page faults in the context of that vmspace. This also
enables features like accessed/dirty bit tracking, swapping to disk and
transparent superpage promotions of guest memory.

Guest vmspace:
Each bhyve guest has a unique vmspace to represent the physical memory
allocated to the guest. Each memory segment allocated by the guest is
mapped into the guest's address space via the 'vmspace->vm_map' and is
backed by an object of type OBJT_DEFAULT.

pmap types:
The amd64/pmap now understands two types of pmaps: PT_X86 and PT_EPT.

The PT_X86 pmap type is used by the vmspace associated with the host kernel
as well as user processes executing on the host. The PT_EPT pmap is used by
the vmspace associated with a bhyve guest.

Page Table Entries:
The EPT page table entries as mostly similar in functionality to regular
page table entries although there are some differences in terms of what
bits are used to express that functionality. For e.g. the dirty bit is
represented by bit 9 in the nested PTE as opposed to bit 6 in the regular
x86 PTE. Therefore the bitmask representing the dirty bit is now computed
at runtime based on the type of the pmap. Thus PG_M that was previously a
macro now becomes a local variable that is initialized at runtime using
'pmap_modified_bit(pmap)'.

An additional wrinkle associated with EPT mappings is that older Intel
processors don't have hardware support for tracking accessed/dirty bits in
the PTE. This means that the amd64/pmap code needs to emulate these bits to
provide proper accounting to the VM subsystem. This is achieved by using
the following mapping for EPT entries that need emulation of A/D bits:
Bit Position Interpreted By
PG_V 52 software (accessed bit emulation handler)
PG_RW 53 software (dirty bit emulation handler)
PG_A 0 hardware (aka EPT_PG_RD)
PG_M 1 hardware (aka EPT_PG_WR)

The idea to use the mapping listed above for A/D bit emulation came from
Alan Cox (alc@).

The final difference with respect to x86 PTEs is that some EPT implementations
do not support superpage mappings. This is recorded in the 'pm_flags' field
of the pmap.

TLB invalidation:
The amd64/pmap code has a number of ways to do invalidation of mappings
that may be cached in the TLB: single page, multiple pages in a range or the
entire TLB. All of these funnel into a single EPT invalidation routine called
'pmap_invalidate_ept()'. This routine bumps up the EPT generation number and
sends an IPI to the host cpus that are executing the guest's vcpus. On a
subsequent entry into the guest it will detect that the EPT has changed and
invalidate the mappings from the TLB.

Guest memory access:
Since the guest memory is no longer wired we need to hold the host physical
page that backs the guest physical page before we can access it. The helper
functions 'vm_gpa_hold()/vm_gpa_release()' are available for this purpose.

PCI passthru:
Guest's with PCI passthru devices will wire the entire guest physical address
space. The MMIO BAR associated with the passthru device is backed by a
vm_object of type OBJT_SG. An IOMMU domain is created only for guest's that
have one or more PCI passthru devices attached to them.

Limitations:
There isn't a way to map a guest physical page without execute permissions.
This is because the amd64/pmap code interprets the guest physical mappings as
user mappings since they are numerically below VM_MAXUSER_ADDRESS. Since PG_U
shares the same bit position as EPT_PG_EXECUTE all guest mappings become
automatically executable.

Thanks to Alan Cox and Konstantin Belousov for their rigorous code reviews
as well as their support and encouragement.

Thanks for John Baldwin for reviewing the use of OBJT_SG as the backing
object for pci passthru mmio regions.

Special thanks to Peter Holm for testing the patch on short notice.

Approved by: re
Discussed with: grehan
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Tested by: pho


249905 25-Apr-2013 neel

Remove deprecated APIs to get the total and free memory available to vmm.ko.

These APIs were relevant when memory for virtual machine allocation was
hard partitioned away from the rest of the system but that is no longer
the case. The sysctls that provided this information were garbage collected
a while back.

Obtained from: NetApp


248477 18-Mar-2013 neel

Simplify the assignment of memory to virtual machines by requiring a single
command line option "-m <memsize in MB>" to specify the memory size.

Prior to this change the user needed to explicitly specify the amount of
memory allocated below 4G (-m <lowmem>) and the amount above 4G (-M <highmem>).

The "-M" option is no longer supported by 'bhyveload' and 'bhyve'.

The start of the PCI hole is fixed at 3GB and cannot be directly changed
using command line options. However it is still possible to change this in
special circumstances via the 'vm_set_lowmem_limit()' API provided by
libvmmapi.

Submitted by: Dinakar Medavaram (initial version)
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp


246686 11-Feb-2013 neel

Implement guest vcpu pinning using 'pthread_setaffinity_np(3)'.

Prior to this change pinning was implemented via an ioctl (VM_SET_PINNING)
that called 'sched_bind()' on behalf of the user thread.

The ULE implementation of 'sched_bind()' bumps up 'td_pinned' which in turn
runs afoul of the assertion '(td_pinned == 0)' in userret().

Using the cpuset affinity to implement pinning of the vcpu threads works with
both 4BSD and ULE schedulers and has the happy side-effect of getting rid
of a bunch of code in vmm.ko.

Discussed with: grehan


245678 20-Jan-2013 neel

Add svn properties to the recently merged bhyve source files.

The pre-commit hook will not allow any commits without the svn:keywords
property in head.


245652 19-Jan-2013 neel

Merge projects/bhyve to head.

'bhyve' was developed by grehan@ and myself at NetApp (thanks!).

Special thanks to Peter Snyder, Joe Caradonna and Michael Dexter for their
support and encouragement.

Obtained from: NetApp


242131 26-Oct-2012 grehan

Remove mptable generation code from libvmmapi and move it to bhyve.
Firmware tables require too much knowledge of system configuration,
and it's difficult to pass that information in general terms to a library.
The upcoming ACPI work exposed this - it will also livein bhyve.

Also, remove code specific to NetApp from the mptable name, and remove
the -n option from bhyve.

Reviewed by: neel
Obtained from: NetApp


241486 12-Oct-2012 neel

Add an api to map a vm capability type into a string to be used for display
purposes.


241179 04-Oct-2012 neel

The ioctl VM_GET_MEMORY_SEG is no longer able to return the host physical
address associated with the guest memory segment. This is because there is
no longer a 1:1 mapping between GPA and HPA.

As a result 'vmmctl' can only display the guest physical address and the
length of the lowmem and highmem segments.


241178 04-Oct-2012 neel

Change vm_malloc() to map pages in the guest physical address space in 4KB
chunks. This breaks the assumption that the entire memory segment is
contiguously allocated in the host physical address space.

This also paves the way to satisfy the 4KB page allocations by requesting
free pages from the VM subsystem as opposed to hard-partitioning host memory
at boot time.


240922 25-Sep-2012 neel

Add ioctls to control the X2APIC capability exposed by the virtual machine to
the guest.

At the moment this simply sets the state in the 'vcpu' instance but there is
no code that acts upon these settings.


239700 26-Aug-2012 grehan

Add sysctls to display the total and free amount of hard-wired mem for VMs
# sysctl hw.vmm
hw.vmm.mem_free: 2145386496
hw.vmm.mem_total: 2145386496

Submitted by: Takeshi HASEGAWA hasegaw at gmail com


239042 04-Aug-2012 neel

Allow the 'bhyve' process to control whether or not the virtual machine sees an
ioapic.

Obtained from: NetApp


239026 04-Aug-2012 neel

API to map an apic id to the vcpu.

At the moment this is a simple mapping because the numerical values are
identical.


239025 04-Aug-2012 neel

There is no need to explicitly specify the CR4_VMXE bit when writing to guest
CR4. This bit is specific to the Intel VTX and removing it makes the library
more portable to AMD/SVM.

In the Intel VTX implementation, the hypervisor will ensure that this bit is
always set. See vmx_fix_cr4() for details.

Suggested by: grehan


234761 28-Apr-2012 grehan

MSI-x interrupt support for PCI pass-thru devices.

Includes instruction emulation for memory r/w access. This
opens the door for io-apic, local apic, hpet timer, and
legacy device emulation.

Submitted by: ryan dot berryhill at sandvine dot com
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: Sandvine


221942 15-May-2011 jhb

First cut to port bhyve, vmmctl, and libvmmapi to HEAD.


221828 13-May-2011 grehan

Import of bhyve hypervisor and utilities, part 1.
vmm.ko - kernel module for VT-x, VT-d and hypervisor control
bhyve - user-space sequencer and i/o emulation
vmmctl - dump of hypervisor register state
libvmm - front-end to vmm.ko chardev interface

bhyve was designed and implemented by Neel Natu.

Thanks to the following folk from NetApp who helped to make this available:
Joe CaraDonna
Peter Snyder
Jeff Heller
Sandeep Mann
Steve Miller
Brian Pawlowski