From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events before init
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 01:52:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250930085237.108326-1-oliver.upton@linux.dev> (raw)
Another day, another syzkaller bug. KVM erroneously allows userspace to
pend vCPU events for a vCPU that hasn't been initialized yet, leading to
KVM interpreting a bunch of uninitialized garbage for routing /
injecting the exception.
In one case the injection code and the hyp disagree on whether the vCPU
has a 32bit EL1 and put the vCPU into an illegal mode for AArch64,
tripping the BUG() in exception_target_el() during the next injection:
kernel BUG at arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c:40!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 318 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.17.0-rc4-00104-g10fd0285305d #6 PREEMPT
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
pstate: 21402009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : exception_target_el+0x88/0x8c
lr : pend_serror_exception+0x18/0x13c
sp : ffff800082f03a10
x29: ffff800082f03a10 x28: ffff0000cb132280 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff0000c2a99c20 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: 0000000000008000 x22: 0000000000000002 x21: 0000000000000004
x20: 0000000000008000 x19: ffff0000c2a99c20 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 00000000200000c0
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : ffff800082f03af8 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : ffff800080f621f0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 000000000040009b x1 : 0000000000000003 x0 : ffff0000c2a99c20
Call trace:
exception_target_el+0x88/0x8c (P)
kvm_inject_serror_esr+0x40/0x3b4
__kvm_arm_vcpu_set_events+0xf0/0x100
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x180/0x9d4
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x60c/0x9f4
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xac/0x104
invoke_syscall+0x48/0x110
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0
do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
el0_svc+0x34/0xf0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe4
el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
Code: f946bc01 b4fffe61 9101e020 17fffff2 (d4210000)
Reject the ioctls outright as no sane VMM would call these before
KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT anyway. Even if it did the exception would've been
thrown away by the eventual reset of the vCPU's state.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.17
Fixes: b7b27facc7b5 ("arm/arm64: KVM: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS")
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
---
While the blamed commit is indeed broken, only 6.17+ kernels actually
hit the BUG() due to commit efa1368ba9f4 ("KVM: arm64: Commit exceptions
from KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS immediately).
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index a59b4046617c..c44357d26ee8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -1795,6 +1795,9 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
case KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS: {
struct kvm_vcpu_events events;
+ if (!kvm_vcpu_initialized(vcpu))
+ return -ENOEXEC;
+
if (kvm_arm_vcpu_get_events(vcpu, &events))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -1806,6 +1809,9 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
case KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS: {
struct kvm_vcpu_events events;
+ if (!kvm_vcpu_initialized(vcpu))
+ return -ENOEXEC;
+
if (copy_from_user(&events, argp, sizeof(events)))
return -EFAULT;
base-commit: 10fd0285305d0b48e8a3bf15d4f17fc4f3d68cb6
--
2.39.5
next reply other threads:[~2025-09-30 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-30 8:52 Oliver Upton [this message]
2025-09-30 9:26 ` [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events before init Marc Zyngier
2025-09-30 9:28 ` Marc Zyngier
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