From: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
To: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <seanjc@google.com>, <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: <yosry@kernel.org>, <naveen.rao@amd.com>,
Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>,
Chandrakanth Silveru <Chandrakanth.Silveru@amd.com>,
Srikanth Aithal <Srikanth.Aithal@amd.com>,
K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Bump asid_generation on CPU online to avoid ASID collision after hotplug
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:35:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260715063506.672432-1-nikunj@amd.com> (raw)
If a vCPU stays scheduled out (or blocked) while the last pCPU it ran
on goes through a hotplug cycle (online->offline->online), and the vCPU
then resumes execution on the same pCPU, then it is possible for it to
run with an ASID that has now been assigned to a different vCPU,
resulting in stale TLB translations being used.
svm_enable_virtualization_cpu() resets asid_generation to 1 and sets
next_asid to max_asid + 1 on every CPU online event, including hotplug
cycles. Because next_asid starts beyond the pool boundary, the first
call to new_asid() after an online event always wraps the pool,
incrementing asid_generation to 2 and assigning ASIDs starting from
min_asid.
Consider two vCPUs from different VMs, vCPU-A pinned to CPU-X holding
asid_generation=2 and ASID=N from before the hotplug event:
1. CPU-X goes offline and back online: asid_generation resets to 1,
next_asid = max_asid + 1.
2. One or more vCPUs migrate to CPU-X and call new_asid(), wrapping
the pool and consuming ASIDs starting from min_asid. Eventually
vCPU-B from a different VM is assigned asid_generation=2, ASID=N
— the same ASID that vCPU-A held before the hotplug.
3. vCPU-A enters pre_svm_run() on CPU-X: current_vmcb->cpu is
unchanged so the migration branch is skipped. Its saved
asid_generation=2 matches sd->asid_generation=2, so the generation
check silently passes and vCPU-A continues running with ASID=N —
the same ASID just freshly assigned to vCPU-B.
Both vCPUs from different VMs now run on CPU-X with the same ASID,
causing them to share NPT TLB entries and producing stale translations.
The collision manifests as a KVM internal error (Suberror: 1, emulation
failure). The NPT page fault reports a faulting GPA far outside the
VM's physical memory range — a sign of stale TLB translations being
used. KVM falls back to instruction emulation, which fails on
FPU/XSave instructions (XRSTOR, STMXCSR) that the emulator does not
implement.
Fix this by incrementing asid_generation instead of resetting it to 1
in svm_enable_virtualization_cpu(). On module load, asid_generation
starts at 0 (memset) and the increment produces 1, identical to the
old behaviour. On subsequent hotplug cycles the generation advances
beyond any value a vCPU previously observed on this CPU, so the
generation check in pre_svm_run() reliably forces new_asid() on every
vCPU after every hotplug cycle.
Fixes: 774c47f1d78e ("[PATCH] KVM: cpu hotplug support")
Reported-by: Chandrakanth Silveru <Chandrakanth.Silveru@amd.com>
Tested-by: Srikanth Aithal <Srikanth.Aithal@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 91286d46d13ad..c2c6487bd5bd1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -571,7 +571,12 @@ static int svm_enable_virtualization_cpu(void)
return r;
sd = per_cpu_ptr(&svm_data, me);
- sd->asid_generation = 1;
+ /*
+ * Bump the current asid_generation value to ensure any vCPU that
+ * previously ran on this CPU sees a stale generation and is forced
+ * to acquire a new ASID, preventing a latent ASID collision.
+ */
+ sd->asid_generation++;
sd->max_asid = cpuid_ebx(SVM_CPUID_FUNC) - 1;
sd->next_asid = sd->max_asid + 1;
sd->min_asid = max_sev_asid + 1;
--
2.48.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-15 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-15 6:35 Nikunj A Dadhania [this message]
2026-07-15 8:16 ` [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Bump asid_generation on CPU online to avoid ASID collision after hotplug Naveen N Rao
2026-07-16 5:18 ` Nikunj A. Dadhania
2026-07-15 19:01 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-16 7:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
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