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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>,
	 James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>,
	Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 15/23] KVM: Pre-check uaccesses in KVM's APIs to read/write guest memory
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:21:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261030212112.2598640-16-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261030212112.2598640-1-seanjc@google.com>

Add a check on whether or not doing a user access is ok in KVM's APIs for
accessing guest memory, *before* doing memslot lookup/validation, so that
buggy KVM accesses to guest memory are more likely to fail noisily.
Because KVM installs dummy/empty memslots early in VM destruction, bugs in
the VM teardown path will fail on the memslot checks without getting to the
WARNs buried in kvm_copy_{to,from}_user() and friends.

Reviewed-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 2eda12a52bf4..c6af11cea296 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3300,6 +3300,12 @@ static int next_segment(unsigned long len, int offset)
 		return len;
 }
 
+static bool kvm_is_guest_access_ok(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long offset,
+				   unsigned long len, unsigned long size)
+{
+	return kvm_can_do_uaccess(kvm) && !WARN_ON_ONCE(offset + len > size);
+}
+
 /* Copy @len bytes from guest memory at '(@gfn * PAGE_SIZE) + @offset' to @data */
 static int __kvm_read_guest_page(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
 				 gfn_t gfn, void *data, int offset, int len)
@@ -3307,7 +3313,7 @@ static int __kvm_read_guest_page(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
 	int r;
 	unsigned long addr;
 
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(offset + len > PAGE_SIZE))
+	if (!kvm_is_guest_access_ok(kvm, offset, len, PAGE_SIZE))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	addr = gfn_to_hva_memslot_prot(slot, gfn, NULL);
@@ -3383,7 +3389,7 @@ static int __kvm_read_guest_atomic(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot
 	int r;
 	unsigned long addr;
 
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(offset + len > PAGE_SIZE))
+	if (!kvm_is_guest_access_ok(kvm, offset, len, PAGE_SIZE))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	addr = gfn_to_hva_memslot_prot(slot, gfn, NULL);
@@ -3416,7 +3422,7 @@ static int __kvm_write_guest_page(struct kvm *kvm,
 	int r;
 	unsigned long addr;
 
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(offset + len > PAGE_SIZE))
+	if (!kvm_is_guest_access_ok(kvm, offset, len, PAGE_SIZE))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	addr = gfn_to_hva_memslot(memslot, gfn);
@@ -3546,7 +3552,7 @@ int kvm_write_guest_offset_cached(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
 	int r;
 	gpa_t gpa = ghc->gpa + offset;
 
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(len + offset > ghc->len))
+	if (!kvm_is_guest_access_ok(kvm, offset, len, ghc->len))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (slots->generation != ghc->generation) {
@@ -3584,7 +3590,7 @@ int kvm_read_guest_offset_cached(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
 	int r;
 	gpa_t gpa = ghc->gpa + offset;
 
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(len + offset > ghc->len))
+	if (!kvm_is_guest_access_ok(kvm, offset, len, ghc->len))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (slots->generation != ghc->generation) {
-- 
2.56.0.385.gac671c819a-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-30 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-30 21:20 [PATCH v4 00/23] KVM: Fix+harden against bad uaccess using dying VM Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 01/23] KVM: Reject user accesses to guest memory if current->mm != kvm->mm Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 02/23] KVM: nVMX: Don't force a full nested VM-Exit when destroying a vCPU Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 03/23] KVM: PPC: Flush/zap all memslots on kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all() Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 04/23] KVM: x86: Drop dead check on an existing memslot not having any pages Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 05/23] KVM: WARN and error out if memslot update encounters existing slot with no pages Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 06/23] KVM: x86: Unmap VMAs for KVM-internal memslots when the memslot is freed Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 07/23] KVM: x86: Delete non-SMM internal memslot if creating SMM memslot fails Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 08/23] KVM: x86: Process all address spaces when deleting internal memslot Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 09/23] KVM: x86: Re-queue APICv update request if inhibiting APIC access page fails Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 10/23] KVM: x86: Map a separate VMA for each address space for internal memslots Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 11/23] KVM: Disallow setting memslots when the VM is being destroyed Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 12/23] KVM: Destroy memslots immediately after mmu_notifiers are unregistered Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 13/23] KVM: WARN if KVM attempts to do guest-related uaccess with "wrong" process Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 14/23] KVM: WARN and reject guest-based uaccess if VM is dying Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 16/23] KVM: VMX: Explicility free vmcs01, not the current VMCS, in vCPU free paths Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 17/23] KVM: nVMX: Don't explicitly VMCLEAR+free() vmcs01's shadow VMCS when freeing vCPU Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 18/23] KVM: nVMX: Cancel the nested VMX Preemption Timer's hrtimer in free_nested() Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 19/23] KVM: Add lockdep-only APIs to query and assert that a vCPU is unreachable Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 20/23] KVM: VMX: Explicitly remove dying vCPUs from the PI wakeup list Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 21/23] KVM: nVMX: Don't switch to vmcs01 when freeing a vCPU Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 22/23] KVM: nVMX: Don't load+put the vCPU when freeing nested state for a dying vCPU Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 23/23] KVM: x86: Rename __x86_set_memory_region() => x86_set_internal_memslot() Sean Christopherson

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