From: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v3 00/26] Nested SVM fixes, cleanups, and hardening
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:26:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251215192722.3654335-2-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251215192722.3654335-1-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
A group of semi-related fixes, cleanups, and hardening patches for nSVM.
This series doubled in size between v2 and v3, but it's Sean's fault for
finding more bugs that needed fixing.
The series is essentially a group of related mini-series stitched
together for syntactic and semantic dependencies. The first 19 patches
(except patch 3) are all optimistically CC'd to stable as they are fixes
or refactoring leading up to bug fixes. Although I am not sure how much
of that will actually apply to stable trees.
Patches 1-3 here are v2 of the last 3 patches in in the LBRV fixes
series [1]. The first 3 patches of [1] are already in kvm/master. The
rest of this series is v2 of [2].
Patches 4-14 are fixes for failure handling in the nested VMRUN and
#VMEXIT code paths, ending with a nice unified code path for handling
VMRUN failures as suggested by Sean. Within this block, patches 7-12 are
refactoring needed for patches 13-14.
Patches 15-19 are fixes for missing or made-up consistency checks.
Patches 20-22 are renames and cleanups.
Patches 23-26 add hardening to reading the VMCB12, caching all used
fields in the save area to prevent theoritical TOC-TOU bugs, sanitizing
used fields in the control area, and restricting accesses to the VMCB12
through guest memory.
v2 -> v3:
- Dropped updating nested_npt_enabled() to check
guest_cpu_cap_has(X86_FEATURE_NPT), instead clear the NP_ENABLE bit in
the cached VMCB12 if the guest vCPU doesn't have X86_FEATURE_NPT.
- Patches 4-14 are all new, mostly from reviews on v2.
- The consistency checks were split into several patches, one per added
or removed consistency check.
- Added a patch to cleanup definitions in svm.h as suggested by Sean,
separate from introducing new definitions.
- Patch 'KVM: nSVM: Simplify nested_svm_vmrun()' was organically dropped
as the simplifications happened incrementally across other patches.
- Patch 'KVM: nSVM: Sanitize control fields copied from VMCB12' was
reworked to do the sanitization when copying to the cached VMCB12 (as
opposed to when constructing the VMCB02).
Yosry Ahmed (26):
KVM: SVM: Switch svm_copy_lbrs() to a macro
KVM: SVM: Add missing save/restore handling of LBR MSRs
KVM: selftests: Add a test for LBR save/restore (ft. nested)
KVM: nSVM: Always inject a #GP if mapping VMCB12 fails on nested VMRUN
KVM: nSVM: Triple fault if mapping VMCB12 fails on nested #VMEXIT
KVM: nSVM: Triple fault if restore host CR3 fails on nested #VMEXIT
KVM: nSVM: Drop nested_vmcb_check_{save/control}() wrappers
KVM: nSVM: Call enter_guest_mode() before switching to VMCB02
KVM: nSVM: Make nested_svm_merge_msrpm() return an errno
KVM: nSVM: Call nested_svm_merge_msrpm() from enter_svm_guest_mode()
KVM: nSVM: Call nested_svm_init_mmu_context() before switching to
VMCB02
KVM: nSVM: Refactor minimal #VMEXIT handling out of
nested_svm_vmexit()
KVM: nSVM: Unify handling of VMRUN failures with proper cleanup
KVM: nSVM: Clear EVENTINJ field in VMCB12 on nested #VMEXIT
KVM: nSVM: Drop the non-architectural consistency check for NP_ENABLE
KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for nCR3 validity
KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for hCR0.PG and NP_ENABLE
KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for EFER, CR0, CR4, and CS
KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for event_inj
KVM: SVM: Rename vmcb->nested_ctl to vmcb->misc_ctl
KVM: SVM: Rename vmcb->virt_ext to vmcb->misc_ctl2
KVM: SVM: Use BIT() and GENMASK() for definitions in svm.h
KVM: nSVM: Cache all used fields from VMCB12
KVM: nSVM: Restrict mapping VMCB12 on nested VMRUN
KVM: nSVM: Sanitize control fields copied from VMCB12
KVM: nSVM: Only copy NP_ENABLE from VMCB01's misc_ctl
arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h | 96 ++--
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 536 +++++++++++-------
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 4 +-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 68 +--
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 51 +-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm | 1 +
.../selftests/kvm/include/x86/processor.h | 5 +
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/x86/svm.h | 14 +-
.../selftests/kvm/x86/svm_lbr_nested_state.c | 155 +++++
10 files changed, 631 insertions(+), 302 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/svm_lbr_nested_state.c
base-commit: 58e10b63777d0aebee2cf4e6c67e1a83e7edbe0f
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2.52.0.239.gd5f0c6e74e-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-15 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-15 19:26 [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Fix redundant updates of LBR MSR intercepts Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:26 ` Yosry Ahmed [this message]
2025-12-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v3 01/26] KVM: SVM: Switch svm_copy_lbrs() to a macro Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v3 02/26] KVM: SVM: Add missing save/restore handling of LBR MSRs Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v3 03/26] KVM: selftests: Add a test for LBR save/restore (ft. nested) Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:26 ` [PATCH v3 04/26] KVM: nSVM: Always inject a #GP if mapping VMCB12 fails on nested VMRUN Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 05/26] KVM: nSVM: Triple fault if mapping VMCB12 fails on nested #VMEXIT Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 06/26] KVM: nSVM: Triple fault if restore host CR3 " Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 07/26] KVM: nSVM: Drop nested_vmcb_check_{save/control}() wrappers Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 08/26] KVM: nSVM: Call enter_guest_mode() before switching to VMCB02 Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 09/26] KVM: nSVM: Make nested_svm_merge_msrpm() return an errno Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 10/26] KVM: nSVM: Call nested_svm_merge_msrpm() from enter_svm_guest_mode() Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 11/26] KVM: nSVM: Call nested_svm_init_mmu_context() before switching to VMCB02 Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 12/26] KVM: nSVM: Refactor minimal #VMEXIT handling out of nested_svm_vmexit() Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 13/26] KVM: nSVM: Unify handling of VMRUN failures with proper cleanup Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 14/26] KVM: nSVM: Clear EVENTINJ field in VMCB12 on nested #VMEXIT Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 15/26] KVM: nSVM: Drop the non-architectural consistency check for NP_ENABLE Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 16/26] KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for nCR3 validity Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 17/26] KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for hCR0.PG and NP_ENABLE Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 18/26] KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for EFER, CR0, CR4, and CS Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 19/26] KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for event_inj Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 20/26] KVM: SVM: Rename vmcb->nested_ctl to vmcb->misc_ctl Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 21/26] KVM: SVM: Rename vmcb->virt_ext to vmcb->misc_ctl2 Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 22/26] KVM: SVM: Use BIT() and GENMASK() for definitions in svm.h Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 23/26] KVM: nSVM: Cache all used fields from VMCB12 Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 24/26] KVM: nSVM: Restrict mapping VMCB12 on nested VMRUN Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-16 16:34 ` Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-16 21:34 ` Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 25/26] KVM: nSVM: Sanitize control fields copied from VMCB12 Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 26/26] KVM: nSVM: Only copy NP_ENABLE from VMCB01's misc_ctl Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:33 ` [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Fix redundant updates of LBR MSR intercepts Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-15 19:38 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-12-15 20:10 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-01-14 22:07 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-01-15 0:35 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-01-15 1:12 ` Sean Christopherson
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