From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: WARN and clear role.invalid when creating a child shadow page
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 15:46:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260807134633.2622273-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Explicitly clear role.invalid when deriving a child shadow page's role from
its parent to harden against bugs elsewhere in KVM, as violating KVM's
invariant that invalid pages are NOT on the list of active MMU pages leads
to use-after-free due to __kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page() using list_add()
instead of list_move() when processing an invalid shadow page, i.e. makes a
bad situation far worse.
Yell loudly if the parent is invalid, as it means KVM has missed a validity
check, i.e. KVM is attempting to map memory using an invalid/obsolete root,
but continue on as the child is otherwise still a valid shadow page.
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __kvm_mmu_get_shadow_page+0x1817/0x1860 [kvm]
Write of size 8 at addr ff11000153dd1368 by task repro/853
CPU: 1 UID: 1000 PID: 853 Comm: repro Not tainted 7.2.0-rc2-3aec122bdcaf-next-vm #5 PREEMPT
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x4b/0x70
print_report+0x153/0x49c
kasan_report+0xbc/0xf0
__kvm_mmu_get_shadow_page+0x1817/0x1860 [kvm]
mmu_alloc_root+0x141/0x320 [kvm]
kvm_mmu_load+0x612/0x20f0 [kvm]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x3dd5/0x6150 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x5e4/0x10d0 [kvm]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x131/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x67/0x5f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
</TASK>
Allocated by task 853:
kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x5f/0x70
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0xfe/0x2e0
__kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache+0x135/0x530 [kvm]
paging64_page_fault+0x318/0x1e30 [kvm]
kvm_mmu_do_page_fault+0x21d/0x630 [kvm]
kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x18c/0x17b0 [kvm]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x1f35/0x6150 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x5e4/0x10d0 [kvm]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x131/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x67/0x5f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
Freed by task 853:
kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
kmem_cache_free+0xe2/0x400
kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page.part.0+0x1e2/0x310 [kvm]
kvm_mmu_free_roots+0x283/0x560 [kvm]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x33c8/0x6150 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x5e4/0x10d0 [kvm]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x131/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x67/0x5f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Fixes: a770f6f28b1a ("KVM: MMU: Inherit a shadow page's guest level count from vcpu setup")
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 | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index c9e4739b26d7..a61750f8e1e3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -2442,6 +2442,9 @@ static union kvm_mmu_page_role kvm_mmu_child_role(u64 *sptep, bool direct,
role.direct = direct;
role.passthrough = 0;
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(role.invalid);
+ role.invalid = 0;
+
/*
* If the guest has 4-byte PTEs then that means it's using 32-bit,
* 2-level, non-PAE paging. KVM shadows such guests with PAE paging
--
2.55.0
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