From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Replace BUG_ON() with WARN_ON_ONCE() on "bad" nested GPA translation
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:57:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260618185746.2023283-1-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
If KVM attempts to translate what it thinks is an L2 GPA with a non-nested
MMU, simply WARN and return the GPA, i.e. trust the MMU more than the
caller, as there is zero reason to potentially panic the host kernel just
because KVM misused an API.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 3 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 9aedb88c832d..3e6c671a8dc2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -2152,7 +2152,8 @@ static gpa_t svm_translate_nested_gpa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
struct kvm_mmu *mmu = vcpu->arch.mmu;
- BUG_ON(!mmu_is_nested(vcpu));
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mmu_is_nested(vcpu)))
+ return gpa;
/* Non-GMET walks are always user-walks */
if (!(svm->nested.ctl.misc_ctl & SVM_MISC_ENABLE_GMET))
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 3a293640d58c..6957bb6f5cf7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -7470,7 +7470,8 @@ static gpa_t vmx_translate_nested_gpa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
{
struct kvm_mmu *mmu = vcpu->arch.mmu;
- BUG_ON(!mmu_is_nested(vcpu));
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mmu_is_nested(vcpu)))
+ return gpa;
/*
* MBEC differentiates based on the effective U/S bit of
base-commit: 9d4853b044beefa21c4ee3e18c40653601a64ced
--
2.55.0.rc0.738.g0c8ab3ebcc-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-18 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-18 18:57 Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-06-19 4:26 ` Huang, Kai
2026-06-19 15:06 ` David Laight
2026-06-22 23:24 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-06-24 9:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
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