From: "Iván Ezequiel Rodriguez" <ivanrwcm25@gmail.com>
To: pbonzini@redhat.com, seanjc@google.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@lists.kernel.org,
"Iván Ezequiel Rodriguez" <ivanrwcm25@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] kvm: reject unknown flags in device and dirty-log ioctls
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 16:49:45 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260701194946.768731-1-ivanrwcm25@gmail.com> (raw)
Three generic KVM paths silently ignored flag bits that uapi or
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst treat as reserved or zero-only:
- KVM_CREATE_DEVICE (only KVM_CREATE_DEVICE_TEST is defined)
- KVM_{SET,GET,HAS}_DEVICE_ATTR (kvm_device_attr.flags)
- KVM_ENABLE_CAP for KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING{,_ACQ_REL} (cap->flags)
Reject with -EINVAL, matching dma-heap and other strict KVM ioctls.
Adds ioctl_flag_validation_test to tools/testing/selftests/kvm.
Tested: ioctl_flag_validation_test fails on the host kernel without
this patch (KVM_CREATE_DEVICE accepts flags=0x2); requires reloading
the patched kvm module to pass.
Iván Ezequiel Rodriguez (1):
kvm: reject unknown flags in device and dirty-log ioctls
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm | 1 +
.../selftests/kvm/ioctl_flag_validation_test.c | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 9 ++
3 files changed, 114 insertions(+)
--
2.43.0
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