From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 09/10] KVM: nVMX: Don't try to load eVMCS12 page when the VM is dying
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 13:22:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261001202234.3794060-10-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261001202234.3794060-1-seanjc@google.com>
Don't try to get/load the eVMCS12 page when KVM can't do uaccesses to guest
memory, i.e. when the VM dying, as reading/writing guest memory via the
associated userspace address space is obviously broken if the address space
is inactive and/or has already been torn down.
Hack-a-fix the eVMCS code even though KVM now protects against bad uaccess
reads/writes in the core APIs, as doing so will allow adding WARNs in said
APIs to help detect other buggy code. Add a TODO to call out that checking
if KVM can do a uaccess for the VM is a hack; nVMX really needs to stop
abusing __nested_vmx_vmexit() when destroying a vCPU.
E.g. without the "fix", adding the sanity checks will trigger:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: ./include/linux/kvm_host.h:1359 at kvm_read_guest_offset_cached+0x1b0/0x200 [kvm], CPU#14: hyperv_evmcs/27428
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nested_get_evmptr+0x4f/0x80 [kvm_intel]
nested_vmx_handle_enlightened_vmptrld+0x2a/0x130 [kvm_intel]
__nested_vmx_vmexit+0xbe/0x8e0 [kvm_intel]
nested_vmx_free_vcpu+0x36/0x50 [kvm_intel]
vmx_vcpu_free+0x73/0x120 [kvm_intel]
kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy+0x81/0x1a0 [kvm]
kvm_destroy_vcpus+0x9d/0x160 [kvm]
kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x25/0x90 [kvm]
kvm_put_kvm+0x342/0x460 [kvm]
kvm_vm_stats_release+0x12/0x20 [kvm]
__fput+0xfe/0x280
__se_sys_close+0x76/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xfe/0x440
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
RIP: 0033:0x4a3822
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Fixes: f5c7e8425f18 ("KVM: nVMX: Always make an attempt to map eVMCS after migration")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 8e31eba4d9fa..07ec0dd014b5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -5091,8 +5091,13 @@ void __nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 vm_exit_reason,
* Enlightened VMCS after migration and we still need to
* do that when something is forcing L2->L1 exit prior to
* the first L2 run.
+ *
+ * TODO: Drop the explicit check on being able to access guest
+ * memory once KVM no longer abuses the nested VM-Exit
+ * flow when destroying a vCPU.
*/
- (void)nested_get_evmcs_page(vcpu);
+ if (__kvm_can_do_uaccess(vcpu->kvm))
+ (void)nested_get_evmcs_page(vcpu);
#endif
}
--
2.56.0.rc1.315.gc6ed9934b7-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-01 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-01 20:22 [PATCH v2 00/10] KVM: Fix+harden against bad uaccess using dying VM Sean Christopherson
2026-10-01 20:22 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] KVM: Reject user accesses to guest memory if current->mm != kvm->mm Sean Christopherson
2026-10-01 21:08 ` James Houghton
2026-10-01 21:18 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-10-01 21:28 ` James Houghton
2026-10-01 20:22 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] KVM: PPC: Flush/zap all memslots on kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all() Sean Christopherson
2026-10-01 20:22 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] KVM: x86: Unmap VMAs for KVM-internal memslots when the memslot is freed Sean Christopherson
2026-10-01 21:26 ` James Houghton
2026-10-01 20:22 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] KVM: Disallow setting memslots when the VM is being destroyed Sean Christopherson
2026-10-01 20:22 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] KVM: Destroy memslots immediately after mmu_notifiers are unregistered Sean Christopherson
2026-10-01 20:22 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] KVM: WARN if KVM attempts to do guest-related uaccess with "wrong" process Sean Christopherson
2026-10-01 20:22 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] KVM: WARN and reject guest-based uaccess if VM is dying Sean Christopherson
2026-10-01 20:22 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] KVM: nVMX: Don't flush shadow VMCS12 to guest memory during vCPU teardown Sean Christopherson
2026-10-01 20:22 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-10-01 20:22 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] KVM: Pre-check uaccesses in KVM's APIs to read/write guest memory Sean Christopherson
2026-10-02 20:30 ` [syzbot ci] Re: KVM: Fix+harden against bad uaccess using dying VM syzbot ci
2026-10-02 20:39 ` Sean Christopherson
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