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From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/4] Relax canonical checks on some arch msrs
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:33:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240815123349.729017-1-mlevitsk@redhat.com> (raw)

Recently we came up upon a failure where likely the guest writes
0xff4547ceb1600000 to MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE and later on, qemu
sets this value via KVM_PUT_MSRS, and is rejected by the
kernel, likely due to not being canonical in 4 level paging.

One of the way to trigger this is to make the guest enter SMM,
which causes paging to be disabled, which SMM bios re-enables
but not the whole 5 level. MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE on the other
hand continues to contain old value.

I did some reverse engineering and to my surprise I found out
that both Intel and AMD indeed ignore CR4.LA57 when doing
canonical checks on this and other msrs and/or other arch
registers (like GDT base) which contain linear addresses.

V2: addressed a very good feedback from Chao Gao. Thanks!

V3: also fix the nested VMX, and also fix the
MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP / MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

Maxim Levitsky (4):
  KVM: x86: relax canonical check for some x86 architectural msrs
  KVM: x86: add X86_FEATURE_LA57 to governed_features
  KVM: nVMX: relax canonical checks on some x86 registers in vmx host
    state
  KVM: SVM: fix emulation of msr reads/writes of MSR_FS_BASE and
    MSR_GS_BASE

 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c             |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/governed_features.h |  1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c           | 12 ++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c        | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c               | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 5 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

-- 
2.40.1



             reply	other threads:[~2024-08-15 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-15 12:33 Maxim Levitsky [this message]
2024-08-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] KVM: x86: relax canonical check for some x86 architectural msrs Maxim Levitsky
2024-08-16 21:49   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-08-16 22:02     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-08-20 12:13     ` mlevitsk
2024-08-21 12:04       ` mlevitsk
2024-08-21 16:04         ` Sean Christopherson
2024-08-23 11:14           ` mlevitsk
2024-08-23 13:59             ` Sean Christopherson
2025-09-12 20:28               ` Jim Mattson
2025-09-16 20:47                 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-08-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: x86: add X86_FEATURE_LA57 to governed_features Maxim Levitsky
2024-08-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] KVM: nVMX: relax canonical checks on some x86 registers in vmx host state Maxim Levitsky
2024-08-16 10:40   ` mlevitsk
2024-08-16 22:03     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-08-20 12:19       ` mlevitsk
2024-08-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] KVM: SVM: fix emulation of msr reads/writes of MSR_FS_BASE and MSR_GS_BASE Maxim Levitsky
2024-08-16 22:04   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-08-24  0:07     ` Sean Christopherson

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