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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Alexander Bulekov <bkov@amazon.com>,
	Fred Griffoul <fgriffo@amazon.co.uk>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH for-5.15] KVM: x86/mmu: Drop/zap existing present SPTE even when creating an MMIO SPTE
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:01:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260330080144.158592-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

commit aad885e774966e97b675dfe928da164214a71605 upstream.

When installing an emulated MMIO SPTE, do so *after* dropping/zapping the
existing SPTE (if it's shadow-present).  While commit a54aa15c6bda3 was
right about it being impossible to convert a shadow-present SPTE to an
MMIO SPTE due to a _guest_ write, it failed to account for writes to guest
memory that are outside the scope of KVM.

E.g. if host userspace modifies a shadowed gPTE to switch from a memslot
to emulted MMIO and then the guest hits a relevant page fault, KVM will
install the MMIO SPTE without first zapping the shadow-present SPTE.

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  is_shadow_present_pte(*sptep)
  WARNING: arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:484 at mark_mmio_spte+0xb2/0xc0 [kvm], CPU#0: vmx_ept_stale_r/4292
  Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
  CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 4292 Comm: vmx_ept_stale_r Not tainted 7.0.0-rc2-eafebd2d2ab0-sink-vm #319 PREEMPT
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:mark_mmio_spte+0xb2/0xc0 [kvm]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   mmu_set_spte+0x237/0x440 [kvm]
   ept_page_fault+0x535/0x7f0 [kvm]
   kvm_mmu_do_page_fault+0xee/0x1f0 [kvm]
   kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x8d/0x620 [kvm]
   vmx_handle_exit+0x18c/0x5a0 [kvm_intel]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xc55/0x1c20 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x2d5/0x980 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0xb5/0x730
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  RIP: 0033:0x47fa3f
   </TASK>
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Reported-by: Alexander Bulekov <bkov@amazon.com>
Debugged-by: Alexander Bulekov <bkov@amazon.com>
Suggested-by: Fred Griffoul <fgriffo@amazon.co.uk>
Fixes: a54aa15c6bda3 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Handle MMIO SPTEs directly in mmu_set_spte()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index acb9193fc06a..3a705aebb52b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -2717,11 +2717,6 @@ static int mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
 	pgprintk("%s: spte %llx write_fault %d gfn %llx\n", __func__,
 		 *sptep, write_fault, gfn);
 
-	if (unlikely(is_noslot_pfn(pfn))) {
-		mark_mmio_spte(vcpu, sptep, gfn, pte_access);
-		return RET_PF_EMULATE;
-	}
-
 	if (is_shadow_present_pte(*sptep)) {
 		/*
 		 * If we overwrite a PTE page pointer with a 2MB PMD, unlink
@@ -2743,6 +2738,14 @@ static int mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
 			was_rmapped = 1;
 	}
 
+	if (unlikely(is_noslot_pfn(pfn))) {
+		mark_mmio_spte(vcpu, sptep, gfn, pte_access);
+		if (flush)
+			kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address(vcpu->kvm, gfn,
+						   	   KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(level));
+		return RET_PF_EMULATE;
+	}
+
 	set_spte_ret = set_spte(vcpu, sptep, pte_access, level, gfn, pfn,
 				speculative, true, host_writable);
 	if (set_spte_ret & SET_SPTE_WRITE_PROTECTED_PT) {
-- 
2.53.0


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