From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: yosry.ahmed@linux.dev,seanjc@google.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: nSVM: Avoid incorrect injection of" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:26:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025122954-augmented-paralyses-a384@gregkh> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 3d80f4c93d3d26d0f9a0dd2844961a632eeea634
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025122954-augmented-paralyses-a384@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 3d80f4c93d3d26d0f9a0dd2844961a632eeea634 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:29:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: nSVM: Avoid incorrect injection of
SVM_EXIT_CR0_SEL_WRITE
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When emulating L2 instructions, svm_check_intercept() checks whether a
write to CR0 should trigger a synthesized #VMEXIT with
SVM_EXIT_CR0_SEL_WRITE. However, it does not check whether L1 enabled
the intercept for SVM_EXIT_WRITE_CR0, which has higher priority
according to the APM (24593—Rev. 3.42—March 2024, Table 15-7):
When both selective and non-selective CR0-write intercepts are active at
the same time, the non-selective intercept takes priority. With respect
to exceptions, the priority of this intercept is the same as the generic
CR0-write intercept.
Make sure L1 does NOT intercept SVM_EXIT_WRITE_CR0 before checking if
SVM_EXIT_CR0_SEL_WRITE needs to be injected.
Opportunistically tweak the "not CR0" logic to explicitly bail early so
that it's more obvious that only CR0 has a selective intercept, and that
modifying icpt_info.exit_code is functionally necessary so that the call
to nested_svm_exit_handled() checks the correct exit code.
Fixes: cfec82cb7d31 ("KVM: SVM: Add intercept check for emulated cr accesses")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024192918.3191141-4-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev
[sean: isolate non-CR0 write logic, tweak comments accordingly]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index bd8df212a59d..1ae7b3c5a7c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -4535,15 +4535,29 @@ static int svm_check_intercept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
case SVM_EXIT_WRITE_CR0: {
unsigned long cr0, val;
- if (info->intercept == x86_intercept_cr_write)
+ /*
+ * Adjust the exit code accordingly if a CR other than CR0 is
+ * being written, and skip straight to the common handling as
+ * only CR0 has an additional selective intercept.
+ */
+ if (info->intercept == x86_intercept_cr_write && info->modrm_reg) {
icpt_info.exit_code += info->modrm_reg;
+ break;
+ }
- if (icpt_info.exit_code != SVM_EXIT_WRITE_CR0 ||
- info->intercept == x86_intercept_clts)
+ /*
+ * Convert the exit_code to SVM_EXIT_CR0_SEL_WRITE if a
+ * selective CR0 intercept is triggered (the common logic will
+ * treat the selective intercept as being enabled). Note, the
+ * unconditional intercept has higher priority, i.e. this is
+ * only relevant if *only* the selective intercept is enabled.
+ */
+ if (vmcb12_is_intercept(&svm->nested.ctl, INTERCEPT_CR0_WRITE) ||
+ !(vmcb12_is_intercept(&svm->nested.ctl, INTERCEPT_SELECTIVE_CR0)))
break;
- if (!(vmcb12_is_intercept(&svm->nested.ctl,
- INTERCEPT_SELECTIVE_CR0)))
+ /* CLTS never triggers INTERCEPT_SELECTIVE_CR0 */
+ if (info->intercept == x86_intercept_clts)
break;
/* LMSW always triggers INTERCEPT_SELECTIVE_CR0 */
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