Re: Coverity: emulator_leave_smm(): Error handling issues

Kees Cook
2022-12-01T23:22:52Z

On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 06:18:45PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2022, coverity-bot wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by
> > Coverity from a scan of next-20221201 as part of the linux-next scan project:
> > https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan
> >
> > You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified
> > lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits:
> >
> > Wed Nov 9 12:31:18 2022 -0500
> > 1d0da94cdafe ("KVM: x86: do not go through ctxt->ops when emulating rsm")
> >
> > Coverity reported the following:
> >
> > *** CID 1527763: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN)
> > arch/x86/kvm/smm.c:631 in emulator_leave_smm()
> > 625 cr4 = kvm_read_cr4(vcpu);
> > 626 if (cr4 & X86_CR4_PAE)
> > 627 kvm_set_cr4(vcpu, cr4 & ~X86_CR4_PAE);
> > 628
> > 629 /* And finally go back to 32-bit mode. */
> > 630 efer = 0;
> > vvv CID 1527763: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN)
> > vvv Calling "kvm_set_msr" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 5 out of 6 times).
> > 631 kvm_set_msr(vcpu, MSR_EFER, efer);
> > 632 }
> > 633 #endif
> > 634
> > 635 /*
> > 636 * Give leave_smm() a chance to make ISA-specific changes to the vCPU
> >
> > If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as
>
> It's not a false positive per se, but absent a KVM bug the call can never fail.
> Ditto for the kvm_set_cr{0,4}() calls above. That said, I'm tempted to "fix"
> these since we've had bugs related to this code in the past. This doesn't seem
> too ugly...

Yeah, that's what I've done with similar cases. "This should be
impossible" get a WARN_ONCE and fail gracefully.

-Kees

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Kees Cook