From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/8] KVM: SVM: Add a helper to detect VMRUN failures
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:13:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251230211347.4099600-2-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251230211347.4099600-1-seanjc@google.com>
Add a helper to detect VMRUN failures so that KVM can guard against its
own long-standing bug, where KVM neglects to set exitcode[63:32] when
synthesizing a nested VMFAIL_INVALID VM-Exit. This will allow fixing
KVM's mess of treating exitcode as two separate 32-bit values without
breaking KVM-on-KVM when running on an older, unfixed KVM.
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 16 +++++++---------
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index ba0f11c68372..f5bde972a2b1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ int nested_svm_vmexit(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
vmcb12->control.exit_info_1 = vmcb02->control.exit_info_1;
vmcb12->control.exit_info_2 = vmcb02->control.exit_info_2;
- if (vmcb12->control.exit_code != SVM_EXIT_ERR)
+ if (!svm_is_vmrun_failure(vmcb12->control.exit_code))
nested_save_pending_event_to_vmcb12(svm, vmcb12);
if (guest_cpu_cap_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_NRIPS))
@@ -1425,6 +1425,9 @@ static int nested_svm_intercept(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
u32 exit_code = svm->vmcb->control.exit_code;
int vmexit = NESTED_EXIT_HOST;
+ if (svm_is_vmrun_failure(exit_code))
+ return NESTED_EXIT_DONE;
+
switch (exit_code) {
case SVM_EXIT_MSR:
vmexit = nested_svm_exit_handled_msr(svm);
@@ -1432,7 +1435,7 @@ static int nested_svm_intercept(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
case SVM_EXIT_IOIO:
vmexit = nested_svm_intercept_ioio(svm);
break;
- case SVM_EXIT_EXCP_BASE ... SVM_EXIT_EXCP_BASE + 0x1f: {
+ case SVM_EXIT_EXCP_BASE ... SVM_EXIT_EXCP_BASE + 0x1f:
/*
* Host-intercepted exceptions have been checked already in
* nested_svm_exit_special. There is nothing to do here,
@@ -1440,15 +1443,10 @@ static int nested_svm_intercept(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
*/
vmexit = NESTED_EXIT_DONE;
break;
- }
- case SVM_EXIT_ERR: {
- vmexit = NESTED_EXIT_DONE;
- break;
- }
- default: {
+ default:
if (vmcb12_is_intercept(&svm->nested.ctl, exit_code))
vmexit = NESTED_EXIT_DONE;
- }
+ break;
}
return vmexit;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 24d59ccfa40d..c2ddf2e0aa1a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -3540,7 +3540,7 @@ static int svm_handle_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, fastpath_t exit_fastpath)
return 1;
}
- if (svm->vmcb->control.exit_code == SVM_EXIT_ERR) {
+ if (svm_is_vmrun_failure(svm->vmcb->control.exit_code)) {
kvm_run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY;
kvm_run->fail_entry.hardware_entry_failure_reason
= svm->vmcb->control.exit_code;
@@ -4311,7 +4311,7 @@ static __no_kcsan fastpath_t svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 run_flags)
/* Track VMRUNs that have made past consistency checking */
if (svm->nested.nested_run_pending &&
- svm->vmcb->control.exit_code != SVM_EXIT_ERR)
+ !svm_is_vmrun_failure(svm->vmcb->control.exit_code))
++vcpu->stat.nested_run;
svm->nested.nested_run_pending = 0;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
index 01be93a53d07..0f006793f973 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -424,6 +424,11 @@ static __always_inline struct vcpu_svm *to_svm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return container_of(vcpu, struct vcpu_svm, vcpu);
}
+static inline bool svm_is_vmrun_failure(u64 exit_code)
+{
+ return (u32)exit_code == (u32)SVM_EXIT_ERR;
+}
+
/*
* Only the PDPTRs are loaded on demand into the shadow MMU. All other
* fields are synchronized on VM-Exit, because accessing the VMCB is cheap.
--
2.52.0.351.gbe84eed79e-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-30 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-30 21:13 [PATCH v2 0/8] KVM: SVM: Fix exit_code bugs Sean Christopherson
2025-12-30 21:13 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-01-02 16:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] KVM: SVM: Add a helper to detect VMRUN failures Yosry Ahmed
2025-12-30 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] KVM: SVM: Open code handling of unexpected exits in svm_invoke_exit_handler() Sean Christopherson
2026-01-02 11:41 ` Gupta, Pankaj
2025-12-30 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] KVM: SVM: Check for an unexpected VM-Exit after RETPOLINE "fast" handling Sean Christopherson
2025-12-30 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] KVM: SVM: Filter out 64-bit exit codes when invoking exit handlers on bare metal Sean Christopherson
2025-12-30 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] KVM: SVM: Treat exit_code as an unsigned 64-bit value through all of KVM Sean Christopherson
2025-12-30 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] KVM: SVM: Limit incorrect check on SVM_EXIT_ERR to running as a VM Sean Christopherson
2025-12-30 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] KVM: SVM: Harden exit_code against being used in Spectre-like attacks Sean Christopherson
2025-12-30 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] KVM: SVM: Assert that Hyper-V's HV_SVM_EXITCODE_ENL == SVM_EXIT_SW Sean Christopherson
2026-01-02 9:58 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2026-01-05 15:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-01-15 18:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] KVM: SVM: Fix exit_code bugs Sean Christopherson
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