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,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>,
Stefan Teodorescu <fane@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: x86/mmu: Bug the VM if KVM attempts to walk more levels than the MMU has
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 16:20:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260902232028.2767071-4-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260902232028.2767071-1-seanjc@google.com>
Extend the "EFER.LMA && !CR4.PAE" check, which exists largely to guard
against KVM configuring a paging32 MMU with more than 2 levels of paging,
with a very explicit check for exactly that: that KVM isn't trying to walk
more levels of paging than the MMU template provides. I.e. harden KVM
against all bugs that would cause KVM to generates accesses beyond the
bounds of guest_walker's arrays, regardless of how KVM ended up with the
misconfigured MMU.
Note, don't use w->cpu_role.base.level directly as the paging64 template
only provides two levels of page tables for PAE paging on 32-bit hosts, and
handles the third level by manually emulating the PDPTR access.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
index 27427e7f22fa..f925b11d76dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -368,13 +368,14 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr_generic)(struct guest_walker *walker,
pte_access = ~0;
/*
- * Queue a page fault for injection if this assertion fails, as callers
- * assume that walker.fault contains sane info on a walk failure. I.e.
- * avoid making the situation worse by inducing even worse badness
- * between when the assertion fails and when KVM kicks the vCPU out to
- * userspace (because the VM is bugged).
+ * Queue a page fault for injection if any of the below assertions fail,
+ * as callers assume that walker.fault contains sane info on a walk
+ * failure. I.e. avoid making the situation worse by inducing even
+ * worse badness between when the assertion fails and when KVM kicks
+ * the vCPU out to userspace (because the VM is bugged).
*/
- if (KVM_BUG_ON(is_long_mode(vcpu) && !is_pae(vcpu), vcpu->kvm))
+ if (KVM_BUG_ON(is_long_mode(vcpu) && !is_pae(vcpu), vcpu->kvm) ||
+ KVM_BUG_ON(walker->max_level > PT_MAX_FULL_LEVELS, vcpu->kvm))
goto error;
++walker->level;
--
2.55.0.970.g62bdec98f9-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-02 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-02 23:20 [PATCH v2 0/5] KVM: nSVM: Disallow bad L1 EFER for KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 23:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] KVM: nSVM: Reject KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE if L1 has EFER.LMA=1 && EFER.LME=0 Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 23:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] KVM: nSVM: Ignore EFER.LMA if EFER.LME=0 when preparing L2 state Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 23:35 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-09-03 0:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-03 0:10 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-09-04 0:54 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 23:40 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-03 0:03 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 23:20 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-09-02 23:20 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] KVM: x86/mmu: Bug the VM if KVM calcs a CPU role with EFER.LMA=1 && CR4.PAE=0 Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 23:30 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-02 23:20 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: x86/mmu: Convert MMU walker's bounds check from BUG_ON() to KVM_BUG_ON() Sean Christopherson
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