From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ashutosh Desai <ashutoshdesai993@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/6] KVM: SEV: sev_dbg_crypt() fix and overhaul
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:10:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260416231043.3402410-1-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
Ashutosh's fix for a heap OOB/UAF bug in the debug {de,en}crypt code, now
with a selftest to detect the bug (and confirm the fix), and to validate the
functionality.
The rest of the patches completely rewrite the code. When creating the
selftest, I did the silly thing of testing arbitrary offsets+sizes, and
couldn't trigger the true badness because the test failed long before it got
to the larger sizes.
Specifically (or, at least) the current code fails to handle cases where an
address and the size aren't naturally aligned. E.g. when encrypting 9 bytes
at offset 8, KVM needs to _decrypt_ destination[31:0] into a temporary buffer,
buffer[31:0], then copy 9 bytes from source[8:0] to buffer[16:8], then encrypt
buffer[31:0] back into destination[31:0]. The current code only ever copies
16 bytes, and bizarrely uses a temporary buffer for the source as well.
A wholesale rewrite in a single patch isn't my first choice, but the existing
code obviously hasn't been tested, and it's so bizarre and unnecessarily
complex that I've zero confidence that an iterative cleanup would be a net
positive, especially given how many hours it would take.
The initial fix is 7.1 material, the rest (including the selftest, because it
won't pass), can wait for 7.2.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260410050854.2463447-1-ashutoshdesai993@gmail.com
Ashutosh Desai (1):
KVM: SVM: Fix page overflow in sev_dbg_crypt() for ENCRYPT path
Sean Christopherson (5):
KVM: selftests: Add a test to verify SEV {en,de}crypt debug ioctls
KVM: SEV: Explicitly validate the dst buffer for debug operations
KVM: SEV: Add helper function to pin/unpin a single page
KVM: SEV: Rewrite logic to {de,en}crypt memory for debug
KVM: SEV: Allocate only as many bytes as needed for temp crypt buffers
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 423 +++++++++---------
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/x86/sev.h | 24 +
.../testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_dbg_test.c | 118 +++++
4 files changed, 347 insertions(+), 219 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_dbg_test.c
base-commit: 6b802031877a995456c528095c41d1948546bf45
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2.54.0.rc1.513.gad8abe7a5a-goog
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2026-04-16 23:10 Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-04-16 23:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] KVM: SVM: Fix page overflow in sev_dbg_crypt() for ENCRYPT path Sean Christopherson
2026-04-16 23:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] KVM: selftests: Add a test to verify SEV {en,de}crypt debug ioctls Sean Christopherson
2026-04-16 23:10 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] KVM: SEV: Explicitly validate the dst buffer for debug operations Sean Christopherson
2026-04-16 23:10 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] KVM: SEV: Add helper function to pin/unpin a single page Sean Christopherson
2026-04-16 23:10 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] KVM: SEV: Rewrite logic to {de,en}crypt memory for debug Sean Christopherson
2026-04-16 23:10 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] KVM: SEV: Allocate only as many bytes as needed for temp crypt buffers Sean Christopherson
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