From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yuntao Liu <liuyuntao12@huawei.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: avoid underflow when scaling TSC frequency
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 13:53:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250709175303.228675-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
In function kvm_guest_time_update(), __scale_tsc() is used to calculate
a TSC *frequency* rather than a TSC value. With low-enough ratios,
a TSC value that is less than 1 would underflow to 0 and to an infinite
while loop in kvm_get_time_scale():
kvm_guest_time_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
if (kvm_caps.has_tsc_control)
tgt_tsc_khz = kvm_scale_tsc(tgt_tsc_khz,
v->arch.l1_tsc_scaling_ratio);
__scale_tsc(u64 ratio, u64 tsc)
ratio=122380531, tsc=2299998, N=48
ratio*tsc >> N = 0.999... -> 0
Later in the function:
Call Trace:
<TASK>
kvm_get_time_scale arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:2458 [inline]
kvm_guest_time_update+0x926/0xb00 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:3268
vcpu_enter_guest.constprop.0+0x1e70/0x3cf0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:10678
vcpu_run+0x129/0x8d0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11126
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x37a/0x13d0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11352
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x56b/0xe60 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4188
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x12d/0x190 fs/ioctl.c:857
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x59/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2
This can really happen only when fuzzing, since the TSC frequency
would have to be nonsensically low.
Fixes: 35181e86df97 ("KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling function")
Reported-by: Yuntao Liu <liuyuntao12@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index b58a74c1722d..de51dbd85a58 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -3258,9 +3258,11 @@ int kvm_guest_time_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
/* With all the info we got, fill in the values */
- if (kvm_caps.has_tsc_control)
+ if (kvm_caps.has_tsc_control) {
tgt_tsc_khz = kvm_scale_tsc(tgt_tsc_khz,
v->arch.l1_tsc_scaling_ratio);
+ tgt_tsc_khz = tgt_tsc_khz ? : 1;
+ }
if (unlikely(vcpu->hw_tsc_khz != tgt_tsc_khz)) {
kvm_get_time_scale(NSEC_PER_SEC, tgt_tsc_khz * 1000LL,
--
2.43.5
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