From: Dmytro Maluka <dmaluka@chromium.org>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>, Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>,
Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Vineeth Pillai <vineeth@bitbyteword.org>,
Chuanxiao Dong <chuanxiao.dong@intel.com>,
Aashish Sharma <aashish@aashishsharma.net>,
Grzegorz Jaszczyk <jaszczyk@chromium.org>,
Dmytro Maluka <dmaluka@chromium.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: VMX: Fix stale PID-pointer table entry left after vCPU free
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:06:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729170621.308809-3-dmaluka@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260729170621.308809-1-dmaluka@chromium.org>
vCPU creation in kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu() may fail after
kvm_arch_vcpu_create() -> vmx_vcpu_create() already succeeded. In such
case kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu() destroys the newly created vCPU in the
failure path. However, that leaves a side effect: the IPIv pid_table
entry remains configured with this vCPU's pi_desc address. As a result,
when another vCPU sends an IPI to the APIC ID of this failed-to-create
vCPU, it will cause HW to write to this (freed!) pi_desc memory. [*]
Fix this by clearing the pid_table entry when destroying the vCPU.
Note that the same issue exists for SVM AVIC as well [1], to be fixed.
[*] Although, since this memory is freed into the kvm_vcpu_cache kmem
cache which is only used for allocating kvm_vcpus, _maybe_ this
memory will only be reused for pi_desc of another vCPU, not for
anything else. So _maybe_ this will only result in delivering the
IPI to a wrong vCPU (possibly of another VM) in the worst case, not
in a random corruption of kernel memory.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/al4rNqpBYy8FGKPw@blrnaveerao1/
Signed-off-by: Dmytro Maluka <dmaluka@chromium.org>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index cc75feec05da..f98c268b5150 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -7665,6 +7665,9 @@ void vmx_vcpu_free(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
nested_vmx_free_vcpu(vcpu);
free_loaded_vmcs(vmx->loaded_vmcs);
free_page((unsigned long)vmx->ve_info);
+
+ if (vmx_can_use_ipiv(vcpu))
+ WRITE_ONCE(to_kvm_vmx(vcpu->kvm)->pid_table[vcpu->vcpu_id], 0);
}
int vmx_vcpu_create(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
--
2.55.0.508.g3f0d502094-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-29 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-29 17:06 [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: VMX: Fix IPIv use-after-free + improve checking duplicate vcpu_id Dmytro Maluka
2026-07-29 17:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: Check for duplicate vcpu_id as early as possible Dmytro Maluka
2026-07-30 0:23 ` Huang, Kai
2026-07-29 17:06 ` Dmytro Maluka [this message]
2026-07-29 17:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: VMX: Fix stale PID-pointer table entry left after vCPU free sashiko-bot
2026-07-29 18:06 ` Dmytro Maluka
2026-07-29 23:57 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-07-30 0:28 ` Huang, Kai
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