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Returning -EIO causes KVM_RUN to exit to userspace, likely killing the VM. Fix this by returning GHCB_HV_RESP_MALFORMED_INPUT with sub-error code GHCB_ERR_INVALID_INPUT to the guest and resuming the vCPU. Per the GHCB specification, guest-provided GPA buffers that cannot be accessed by the hypervisor (e.g. private pages) should be treated as guest input errors. Because kvm_{read/write/clear}_guest() only returns -EFAULT on failure, treating this failure as an invalid input aligns with the definition of -EFAULT ("Bad address"). Returning GHCB_ERR_INVALID_INPUT also matches existing SNP handling in KVM, which already returns this error code for unaligned or overlapping buffers. It also aligns with other hypercall implementations in KVM (e.g. Hyper-V returning INVALID_HYPERCALL_INPUT on kvm_read_guest() failures in kvm_hv_flush_tlb()). Performing upfront validation (e.g. via kvm_mem_is_private()) is avoided because it is prone to TOCTOU races with concurrent Page State Changes. Fixes: 88caf544c930 ("KVM: SEV: Provide support for SNP_GUEST_REQUEST NAE event") Fixes: 74458e4859d8 ("KVM: SEV: Provide support for SNP_EXTENDED_GUEST_REQUEST NAE event") Signed-off-by: Jacky Li --- arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c index 5705723f1f41..d07562310519 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c @@ -4228,8 +4228,10 @@ static int snp_handle_guest_req(struct vcpu_svm *svm, gpa_t req_gpa, gpa_t resp_ guard(mutex)(&sev->guest_req_mutex); - if (kvm_read_guest(kvm, req_gpa, sev->guest_req_buf, PAGE_SIZE)) - return -EIO; + if (kvm_read_guest(kvm, req_gpa, sev->guest_req_buf, PAGE_SIZE)) { + svm_vmgexit_bad_input(svm, GHCB_ERR_INVALID_INPUT); + return 1; + } data.gctx_paddr = __psp_pa(sev->snp_context); data.req_paddr = __psp_pa(sev->guest_req_buf); @@ -4244,8 +4246,10 @@ static int snp_handle_guest_req(struct vcpu_svm *svm, gpa_t req_gpa, gpa_t resp_ if (ret && !fw_err) return ret; - if (kvm_write_guest(kvm, resp_gpa, sev->guest_resp_buf, PAGE_SIZE)) - return -EIO; + if (kvm_write_guest(kvm, resp_gpa, sev->guest_resp_buf, PAGE_SIZE)) { + svm_vmgexit_bad_input(svm, GHCB_ERR_INVALID_INPUT); + return 1; + } /* No action is requested *from KVM* if there was a firmware error. */ svm_vmgexit_no_action(svm, SNP_GUEST_ERR(0, fw_err)); @@ -4296,7 +4300,7 @@ static int snp_handle_ext_guest_req(struct vcpu_svm *svm, gpa_t req_gpa, gpa_t r if (kvm_read_guest(kvm, req_gpa + offsetof(struct snp_guest_msg_hdr, msg_type), &msg_type, 1)) - return -EIO; + goto request_invalid; /* * As per GHCB spec, requests of type MSG_REPORT_REQ also allow for @@ -4336,7 +4340,7 @@ static int snp_handle_ext_guest_req(struct vcpu_svm *svm, gpa_t req_gpa, gpa_t r * certificate table is terminated by 24-bytes of zeroes. */ if (data_npages && kvm_clear_guest(kvm, data_gpa, 24)) - return -EIO; + goto request_invalid; } return snp_handle_guest_req(svm, req_gpa, resp_gpa); --- base-commit: 50d05c7c76c96b90462f24debacca971d2e86713 change-id: 20260910-snp-invalid-input-5dbb6a408e7f Best regards, -- Jacky Li