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If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Amirmohammad Eftekhar commit c8f4cfe1cf93bce924e27f2abead7a4c4a487505 upstream. Reset the vCPU's MMU pointer back to the root MMU if loading L2 state fails in the "not from VM-Entry" case, i.e. when emulating RSM or handling KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE. Failure to unwind the MMU pointer results in KVM trying to run L1 with a nested MMU, and is especially problematic if the vCPU manages to free its nested state before the VM crashes. Constructing the root for a nested EPT MMU goes through vmcs12, which is dynamically allocated/freed when nVMX is enabled/disabled. And so if the nested state is freed with the MMU still pointing at the nested MMU, KVM will hit a NULL pointer deref when attempting to get L1=>L2 EPTP. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000078 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 114a2d067 P4D 111743067 PUD 11141f067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 20 UID: 1000 PID: 1272 Comm: nested_tdp_faul Not tainted 7.3.0-rc4-8c89f11d1a99b-sink-vm #1914 PREEMPTLAZY Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:nested_ept_get_eptp+0xb/0x10 [kvm_intel] Call Trace: kvm_mmu_load+0xcd/0x870 [kvm] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x18f5/0x1f80 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x2c7/0x970 [kvm] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x90/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x9c/0x4d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 RIP: 0033:0x47491b Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass CR2: 0000000000000078 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- RIP: 0010:nested_ept_get_eptp+0xb/0x10 [kvm_intel] Cc: David Woodhouse Fixes: 72e9cbdb4338 ("KVM: nVMX: fix SMI injection in guest mode") Fixes: 8fcc4b5923af ("kvm: nVMX: Introduce KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Amirmohammad Eftekhar [sean: write changelog] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261001214356.3825100-2-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c @@ -3774,8 +3774,10 @@ vmentry_fail_vmexit_guest_mode: vmentry_fail_vmexit: vmx_switch_vmcs(vcpu, &vmx->vmcs01); - if (!from_vmentry) + if (!from_vmentry) { + nested_ept_uninit_mmu_context(vcpu); return NVMX_VMENTRY_VMEXIT; + } nested_put_vmcs12_pages(vcpu);